A downturn in international travel to the U.S. may last beyond summer, experts warn
A downturn in international travel to the U.S. may last beyond summer, experts warn
No shit. The whole "potentially being arrested and thrown into a concentration camp because you tweeted something the president doesn't like" thing kinda puts a damper on tourism.
Who wants to go to all the trouble of planning an expensive vacation, pay out a lot for tickets and hotels and such, only to get off the plane, and be refused entry because they are demanding to go through your social media?There goes your vacation, and your money.
Fuck it, if I'm European, we're heading to Thailand or the Caribbean for the next few years.
do these experts get payed for these complex infos? any hiring?
Spoiler alert, it will last at least a few more years, possibly longer. Trump and his gestapo have made it clear that the US is closed for business as long as he's in charge. The next great depression is just getting started.
"As long as he's in charge" and beyond. That orange clown proved the world that with the current political system in the US, no deal make sense. Every accord is useless, a visa means nothing. The first lunatic president can change the rules on a whim, it's not safe to do business or even to travel to the US. Even if the current dictator is overthrown by a smart and sane person, without changing deeply all the political system, everything can disappear at the next election.
The more I live through it, the more I am buying into belief that history doesn’t repeat, but it sure as hell rhymes..
We are currently experiencing our own twist on the “Roaring ‘20s”, an not particularly looking forward to what the next next couple of decades will bring.
Who the fuck thought it was going to improve after summer?
Wait until next summer when he is stoking riots in the streets of every American city so that he can declare Martial Law and suspend the mid-term election. I'm sure they'll all want to come and watch that shit show.
Every month brings us closer to natural causes.
uhhh yeah that's what we've been saying
we're not coming back. fuck you guys. give us a solid decade of excellent behaviour and make up for your threats to take us over, and we'll consider thinking about making a plan to return
It's appropriate that corporate barons in airlines, hotels and restaurant industries that have long funded Republicans for deregulation and union busting and poverty wages. They're now getting the full side of the coin which includes:
Airlines will be devastated with reduction in local (poverty wages, can't afford flights) and international travelers. Hotels will suffer as they should. I hope restaurant owners are decimated.
Have the economy and society you voted for you greedy, selfish, disgusting fucks.
the US higher education system and it’s reputation
While I wholeheartedly agree with your comment, I cannot help but notice the irony in that particular bit.
It's similar to the irony of Google's keyboard autocorrect inserting an error when the user knows better. I typed all that on mobile and even got bullets to format, I'm proud!
Whole list of things where the rules were put in for a reason, but people forgot the reasons, and now they want to get rid of them. Sometimes while calling GK Chesterton a conservative intellectual and forgetting about his fence analogy.
Why, yes, it was all shaving the sharpest edges off of capitalism. It was the only way this system could even possibly work, and they're dismantling it.
There are different factions of oligarchs. The Trump administration has been extremely generous to mass-market quack-cure hucksters, legacy media, purveyors of intrusive surveillance tech of all kinds, crypto con artists, religious and home-schooling snake-oil salesmen, venture capitalists, private equity weasels, private prisons and fossil-fuel extractors. They have been unhelpful and often hostile to health care, hospitality and travel, agriculture, science, education, and the renewable energy sector.
It really doesn't matter. The oligarchs that weren't installing Republican fascists were ratfucking the Democratic party. They are as responsible for Trump as anyone. When the whole economy became a scam, it was inevitable that the country would fall to a scam artist.
As a US citizen, good. Our government will just keep being assholes unless people shun them (by taking away their money).
Same position, shut this shit down, it is going to be painful living inside it but it is absolutely necessary.
Tourists could also go to North Korea, but for some reason it doesn't draw crowds, I wonder why.
The World Travel & Tourism Council projected ahead of Memorial Day that the U.S. would be the only country among the 184 it studied where foreign visitor spending would fall in 2025.
I see... so this is what Makes America Great Again. Falling tourism spending.
MAGAts hate foreign tourists, they make the US locals feel poor.
Morons And Genuine Assholes
A downturn in travel to the us may be temporary, but America can go fuck itself forever.
I don't think it will, it will rebound but I doubt it ever will fully. Why the hell would you pay money to come to this shithole of a country? I live here and I laugh at that idea.
Like sure come risk getting deported to a random country on your vacation...?
Years. If not decades. You did this to yourself.
Why would it? The problem is still there. Even if Trump was gone tomorrow the Republicans that put all this in motion would still be in charge.
It's going to take a new government, several arrests, a change of the constitution so that this can never happen again, and at least 10 years of stability before the world trusts the US again.
You don't say? America, are we tired of winning, yet?
Good. This needs to happen. So the clueless can finally accept that the US isn't the best. We as a people think we are the best fighters. We are really the biggest losers. Except perhaps for one shining moment right after WWII. Then we decided to become the worlds peacekeeper and have consistently lost every conflict since then.
Come on tell me those that disagree. Tell me one we won like we won in Germany and Japan. Where we ended up will allies instead of more enemies.
We are gonna lose this fight. The tourist can go anywhere in the world why would they come here?
Well that's what happens when the difference between you and North Korea is the quality of available Kimchi.
Kimchi is definitely more available in the US than in NK, just like every other kind of food.
OP referred to a difference in quality, not quantity.
What is wrong with people from abroad who don't want to be detained and cavity searched? In my day, this was the definition of a great vacation.
Lol who tf are these experts!?!? I coulda told you that for half the price!
Fucking duh.
I'm not going to the US while the turd is still in charge
When douche sandwich gets in though, i'm going to disneyworld
jk, i've actually lost interest in the US entirely tbh
Who would want to go to a facist dictatorship run by a deranged pedofile game show host?
duh. if congress does not act will last at least until 2030.
No shit! Every time I read an article like this, I wonder what alternate reality the author and target audience have been inhabiting.
Good
I'm sure Nazi Germany never saw a downturn in foreign travel in the 1930's.
Well, if Trump and his insane ideas last past the summer, the effects will last, too.
Insert Trump picture with subtitle "I did this".
and vegas is pretty hard hit, especially since they were declining for many years already.
Vegas will die with the boomers.
If it weren't for... motions to everything all of this, they were in the middle of reinventing themselves.
We took a family vacation there last year and had a hoot. Area 15, Red Rock Canyon, Valley of Fire, Hoover dam, No lack of family-friendly shows, alien tourist traps, a ghost town, grand Canyon spots, the sphere. If you're looking for sex and gambling, it still exists, but you don't have to walk down the street beside it for the most part.
May last,lol
Tha fuck ABC news? Did you expect a surge in visitors from Russia and North Korea to replace them by summer? What kind of shit reporting is this?
I expect a sudden uptick once the bastard croaks. Lots of visitors straining to keep control of their overfilled bladders and bowels long enough to reach the front of the line at his grave. Looking forward to seeing you all there.
I don’t. Remember it’s Thiel who is running the show as the puppeteer. The child rapist is just his puppet. Puppets can easily be replaced.
I will never go to the states again in this or any other lifetime.
Everyone has their line I guess ? I stopped going after 9/11. They went full pants on head crazy after that. I'd lived their for a short time in the 1990s (North East near Boston) and had visited several times.
My point, most will just rationalise, forget, adjust and start going again.
Narrator: But that was only the beginning.
You don’t say
Dragons don't care about tourism or the economy. They only care about gold and being feared.
Hey family, who wants to go to Alligator Alcatraz this year?
Meet the mascot! Alligator Al! and all the lovable characters! the Cavity Search Capybaras! Bend over kids!
It's going to take years to recover, decades even, if ever.
Nothing I hear from my friends in Canada or Europe say otherwise. They're all willing to dig in their heels and avoid this country like the plague.
Indefinitely.
Even if we elect (heh, like there'll be real elections going forward) someone else, this stain will stay with us for generations until people forget or forgive, and that's going to take time, if it ever happens in our lifetimes.
Yes, it’s this. It takes one dick at the top to issue the orders but after he’s dead or voted out we have to reconcile with the thousands of workers who executed the orders, and the millions that sat at home cheering them on.
No thanks, headed to countries that want me to visit not just my dollars.
America doesn't even want its own citizens, just their dollars. It's a shit country.
The Biden administration were too cowardly to do that "reconciliation," so here we are.
IF we get another chance, and we will, one way or another, we won't make that mistake again. If they manage to regain power AGAIN, it will be much much worse, so we have to avoid it by cracking down with such tremendous ferocity, they will NEVER dare to try it again.
None ever liked dealing with US immigrations anyway.
Yeah I'm coming into your country to go to Disneyland, of course I'm not a terrorist, what a stupid question. Yeah, feel free to drop my iPad, it only cost 2 weeks of earnings, I'm sure I don't mind.
People were vacationing in Japan and Germany practically before the smoke cleared. There's a few very wild stories of Americans trying to vacation in Afghanistan and Iraq shortly after the US invaded. Trumpism is a bulwark against a tidal wave of foreigners looking to come to America to party. It will be as effective, long term, as his Wall was in keeping out migrant labor.
FFS, North Korea has a tour guide program - practically by way of attrition. Simply easier for them to formalize the process rather than deal with all the adventure seeking lunatics trying to get smuggled in through the back country.
Las Vegas isn't any more stained than Dubai or Cairo. The only difference is that the UAE and the Egypt Dictatorship actively court tourists, while the current American DHS seems hell bent on keeping wealthy tourists out.
The North Korean tour program is much more a propoganda play than anything to with them acknowledging that people are going to try to sneak in anyway. It very intentionally only shows tourists the most inoffensive parts of the country.
There's a big difference between adventure seekers, and regular tourists. The difference isn't the existence of tourists because sure, there will always be tourists coming to America - the difference is the number of tourists.