J. Michael Donovan

Michael Donovan, owner of Visit Canada and other tourism businesses based in Portsmouth, New Hampshire

J. Michael Donovan is president of Visit Canada, a Portsmouth company specializing in educational trips to Canada.

"I'm going to be the first one to predict a tourism train wreck," he said last week.

"What's going to happen is the visitation by Canadians to New Hampshire, in my view, is going to implode," he said.
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But Donovan is concerned about the impact on tourism-related businesses, especially in the White Mountains and on the Seacoast.

J. Michael Donovan, president of Visit Canada Ltd., a Portsmouth company specializing in student travel to Canada, urged tourism officials to send comments on proposed rule-making for the Western Hemisphere Trade Initiative passport changes by Aug. 27.

Donovan said each passport costs $125, which he said would make international school travel prohibitive and could preclude some families from traveling.

He urged exemptions within the WHTI for children below age 16.

"We have a train wreck on our hands, at least potentially," Donovan told a gathering of tourism officials, state leaders and representatives for U.S. Sen.

Michael Donovan, owner of Visit Canada and other tourism businesses based in Portsmouth, New Hampshire