Good Reads: Hosting Disability Inclusive Sporting Events | The Most Famous Seven Notes in Sports | Normalization of Canadian Travel | Canadian Spirits Boycott Pushback | Congress Tackles FEMA Reform

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As sports and accessibility are hot segments of the tourism sector. Sports Travel reports that Lakeshore Consulting is helping tourism bureaus to capitalize on these trends by producing a comprehensive plan for municipalities and organizations that aim to make sporting events more inclusive for people with disabilities.

Lakeshore Consulting Services is a project of Lakeshore Foundation in Birmingham, Alabama, which holds more than 100 years of experience in adapted sports and service to people with disabilities. It is an official Olympic and Paralympic Training Site and home to three Paralympic sport organizations. The Blueprint for Hosting Disability Inclusive Sporting Events can be accessed here.

With World Cup wrapping up, ESPN has produced a terrific short documentary, The Most Famous Seven Notes in Sports, on how a Detroit rock anthem has become a global sports sensation. One more thing World Cup fans are taking away from America! It’s also a great example of how sports and music, the cornerstones of American culture, can bring people together.

CBC News reports Canadian trips to U.S. inch up despite months-long travel boycott. Key takeaway: a professor at Toronto Metropolitan University’s Institute for Hospitality and Tourism Research, sees the uptick as a slight “normalization” of travel by Canadians to the U.S., rather than a sign that Canadians are abandoning the “elbows up” movement.

In a sign that restoring relations with Canada should be best left to the tourism sector, a Congresswoman from New York with the support of the U.S. spirits industry has introduced legislation to direct the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative to launch an investigation into Canadian provincial restrictions on American beer, wine and spirits and if unfair trade practices are found to unfair trade practices, the president could be authorised to impose retaliatory tariffs or other trade restrictions. The Drinks Business reports Could the CANADA Act deepen the U.S.-Canada drink trade war? The stakes are high in this fight. Since March 2025, every Canadian province except Alberta and Saskatchewan has removed American alcohol from government-controlled liquor stores. But escalating the trade battle is not the way to ease tensions with Canada or to get U.S. spirits flowing into Canada and Canadian tourists flowing into U.S. communities.

USA Today: Congress may try to fix FEMA. Is this controversial agency broken? For those who want to dig deeper into the legislation, the written testimony from yesterday’s House Transportation & Infrastructure hearing on Reforming FEMA: Ensuring the Nation’s Disaster Readiness Works for Americans, as well as video of the hearing can be accessed here.