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From the KUOW Newsroom, this is Seattle now.

I'm Patricia Murphy with a roundup of today's top stories. It's

Friday, June 20th. Tourism officials are working on shifting strategy now that fewer Canadians

are coming to visit Washington State. The latest data shows about 114,000 passenger vehicles

passed from Canada into Washington in May.

That's less than half the number that arrived in May last year.

Mark Everton is the president and chief executive officer for the Seattle Southside Regional Tourism Authority.

He says the group has pulled most of its marketing from Canada and instead is courting domestic travelers. Our feeder markets for the Seattle area are primarily California, both the Bay Area

and Los Angeles, Dallas, Phoenix, and then obviously, you know, Chicago, New York, and

Boston because of the tech and the pharma business that comes here.

Averton says he's also seeing a bigger push to convince cruise passengers to extend their trip and spend that extra time checking out the region.

He spoke at a committee meeting of the King County and Seattle City Councils today.

Speaking of impacts from Trump administration policy, builders in the Fuget Sound region are starting fewer new homes that at any time, in about 14 years,

the Puget Sound Business Journal reports that just about 4,500 housing permits were issued so far this

year in King, Snohomish and Pierce counties. That's down more than 27 percent from the same

period the year before. Home builders say tariffs from the Trump administration are a major contributor.

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