Jays Fans Help Seattle Amid Tourism Slide - Beritaja

SEATTLE – Pike Place Market creator and vendor Daniel Fleming says Toronto Blue Jays fans typically show up successful Seattle successful “droves” for games against the Mariners, and the ongoing American League Championship Series has been nary different.

He says the metropolis and the marketplace could look insulated from governmental tensions betwixt Canada and the United States that person seen the number of Canadians heading southbound plunge.

But Visit Seattle, the city’s tourism trading organization, is forecasting a 26 per cent driblet successful world visitors this year, calling it the largest driblet for a awesome metropolis successful the U.S. owed to its “dependence” connected Canada.

Fleming has been trading his activity astatine Pike Place for 2 decades, and is apologetic for the rhetoric of U.S. President Donald Trump toward Canada.

However, he says this tourism play seems “fairly normal,” though he’s noticed a driblet successful Korean and Chinese tourists, and he believes the governmental fallout mightiness manifest much starkly adjacent year.

Fleming says Blue Jays fans recreation to regular play games each the clip and utilizing jerseys arsenic a “barometer,” plentifulness are successful municipality for the American League Championship Series too.

He says he doesn’t deliberation Canadians request overmuch convincing to sojourn a metropolis for illustration Seattle contempt the “hype” about governmental conflict.

“[You] talk to group astatine ample connected the thoroughfare and you will find that the group of a spot are not the authorities of that place,” he said Thursday.

Visit Seattle says Canadians spent $586 cardinal successful the Seattle and King County area past year.

This study by BERITAJA was first published Oct. 16, 2025.