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.
Tourism went down in Berlin in 1935, but that’s not the same thing, right?
And up in 1936 on account of the Olympics. You’ll never guess who’s hosting the 2028 games.
What the fuck lol
History really does repeat itself
Let’s see when a latin American person wins, whether Trump refuses to shake hands
They’ll get deported on their way out of the stadium.
Nah. Deported before the event to ensure that somebody whiter wins
Good. We fucking deserve it.
No one wants to visit. ICE is even detaining white people from Canada and UK, no one is safe from this Trump crap.
I bet it’s all the illegals who used to come on a tourist visa to enter and then illegally overstayed. /s
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.
Oh yes, there have been several press stories for tourists from the EU as well. Being questioned and detained for weeks even.
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
I’m not surprised. I live in Australia and always wanted to travel to the US. As time goes on the likelihood of travelling there seems more bleak.
The rest of the world are such bullies.
Not even North Korea?
They just opened a new waterpark, it was big news and all
That’s a pretty mid water park. I feel like they could do better
That was only one building, this is how it looks like from the outside
Its better… but there is something sad about a waterpark on cloudy days.
West Edmonton mall anyone?
Well yeah. Anyone too chicken to come here and get shot would logically end up somewhere else. Vacation is a zero sum game. Money not spent here will still be spent elsewhere.
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.
North Korea probably couldnt handle a million immigrants. China wouldn’t notice if their 25ish cities with 5M each got 100,000 americans
Gee, I wonder why?
It could go up if they opened the border…
Good.
This is not a trump effect. I think the US is starting to lose appeal overall, and tourism is a side effect of this. I remember when people were waiting for the next movie, album, tv series from the US, now it all seems meh at anything that comes out of Hollywood is uninteresting.
I’m Irish. Irish people loved to holiday in the States. Now, I hear more and more stories from work colleagues, friends and family where holidays to US are cancelled or reconsidered as ** a direct result** of Trump policies.
You have a point, I should have said that this is not trump effect alone. I think the US are less appealing now overall as compared to 20 years ago. Trump is just adding the cherry on top.
You aren’t wrong that the US is losing its appeal in general. But Trump is putting the breaks on hard right now.
It’s one thing to say “Well, US is kinda boring, nothing worth seeing there”, and it’s another thing fearing whether you will make it back home if you go there.
Even if the US was still the coolest place to be in 2025 (which it is certainly not), I would not consider booking a ticket. The fear of losing the money I invested in the trip in case they don’t let me in at the border would be enough to not go to the US, but being afraid that I might be detained or shipped to some random 3rd country because they don’t like my social media posts is certainly enough to make sure I’d never go there.
I heard North Korea is a pretty nice place to visit. Still not going there even if the trip was for free.
I honestly think the US has a lot to offer to tourists, it’s a shame that it’s coming to this. Last time I was there it was in 2022 and visited magnificent places like Monument Valley and the Grand Canyon and there’s few places in the world that can compare to them. But on the other hand, everything became very expensive compared to my previous visits not too many years before.
Confirmed! A couple I knew changed flights last Month and went to Canada instead.
