The United States is expected to be the only one out of 184 countries to see foreign visitor spending fall in 2025, according to the World Travel and Tourism Council.
  • BigDanishGuy@sh.itjust.works
    17·
    7 hours ago

    Tourism is down? No shit!

    I’m in a situation where I might have to travel with a group of students, and big boss is dead set on the US. We’re talking overtime, plane tickets, car rental, hotel, and a per diem. But still I’m resigning before I’ll go to the US right now. If ICE or CBP sees 10% of the stuff I’ve said about TACO, and politics in general, online, I’d be lucky to just get shipped home.

  • Ronno@feddit.nlEnglish
    71·
    11 hours ago

    It’s only been a couple of months. For many people across Europe, visiting the US is quite a trip, these are easily planned a year in advance. Therefore, many still visit the US, because otherwise they might lose serious sums of money. I’m curious to see what next years figures will look like

  • Rachel@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    11·
    15 hours ago

    No one wants to visit. ICE is even detaining white people from Canada and UK, no one is safe from this Trump crap.

  • Samskara@sh.itjust.works
    10·
    15 hours ago

    I bet it’s all the illegals who used to come on a tourist visa to enter and then illegally overstayed. /s

    • Redrangutang@discuss.onlineEnglish
      2·
      14 hours ago

      I had that thought too, but it is true that in Canada for instance the USA border guard has recently gotten a nasty reputation for detaining canadians over nonsense. It is chilling to see how little they think of the good faith relationship people from those countries have long shared.

      • Samskara@sh.itjust.works
        1·
        7 hours ago

        Oh yes, there have been several press stories for tourists from the EU as well. Being questioned and detained for weeks even.

  • guyoverthere123@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    5·
    13 hours ago

    North Korea could do the craziest thing right now…

    Of course they won’t, but they could do a 180 and give everyone a free life.

    • Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz
      1·
      6 hours ago

      North Korea probably couldnt handle a million immigrants. China wouldn’t notice if their 25ish cities with 5M each got 100,000 americans

  • Furbag@lemmy.world
    21·
    21 hours ago

    Gee, I wonder why? Perhaps xenophobia and open hostility towards foreigners isn’t good for the tourism industry? Who could have possibly foreseen this outcome? 🤔🙄

    I expect this trend to continue if the federal government moves forward with it’s plan to charge foreigners more money to visit national parks. One of the objectively best things about our country is our vast natural beauty protected by the federal government in perpetuity, and the national parks system is one of the few institutions that turns a profit every year and we still have the dumbass-in-chief trying to fuck that up too.

  • DarkFuture@lemmy.worldEnglish
    301·
    23 hours ago

    You mean Trump is bad for business?

    Which means all those people saying he’d run it like a business are…stupid?

    • Bytemeister@lemmy.worldEnglish
      20·
      17 hours ago

      He is running it like a business, problem is, he runs most of his businesses straight into the ground.

    • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      12·
      19 hours ago

      Well, the idea of running a Constitutional republic “like a business” is stupid for a whole lot of reasons, but having Taco run it like one of his “businesses” is…next-level stupid.

  • rizzothesmall@sh.itjust.works
    30·
    24 hours ago

    You’re literally imprisoning tourists for the most minor shit, you silly dickheads. Of course that’s going to cost you money.