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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums"Trump Slump" in international tourism predicted to cost the United States more than $7 billion
Well, that didnt take long. People around the world have taken a look at Donald Trump and decided his America is not a place they want to visit. The result has been labeled the Trump Slump, a drop in international tourism thats predicted to cost the United States more than $7 billion. Experts across the travel industry have sounded the alarm that the Trump presidency, already destructive on so many fronts, may also do serious financial damage to the countrys $250 billion tourism sector.
Frommers, a prominent travel guide, notes that the prestigious Travel Weekly magazine (as close to an official travel publication as they come) has set the decline in foreign tourism at 6.8 percent for this year. ForwardKeys, which crunches travel numbers, points to a 6.5 percent downturn in international travel to the U.S. in the week after Trump attempted to issue the Muslim travel ban in January. During the same period, the company found reservations for U.S.-bound flights from Western Europe fell 14 percent and plunged 38 percent from across the Middle East. And a survey released this month by the Global Business Travel Association concluded 45 percent of European business travel professionals say they are less likely to schedule meetings or events in the U.S., according to the Los Angeles Times.
The numbers offer evidence that Trump has turned off potential visitors from around the world. The resounding message of Trumps America First stance, his obsession with the Mexico border wall, his anti-immigrant and anti-refugee policies, his Muslim ban, and his rudeness to longstanding allies is that America is inhospitable to foreigners. Predictably, international travelers are opting to stay awayand that includes the European ones that Trump and his supporters are totally cool with.
Even white, Anglo-Saxon people, who are most of our customers, they are afraid of crossing the border, Al Qanun, who runs a Toronto travel agency, told the Times. They dont want to end up in some prison.
http://www.rawstory.com/2017/04/people-dont-want-to-come-to-trumps-america-the-trump-slump-in-travel-is-costing-america-billions/
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"Trump Slump" in international tourism predicted to cost the United States more than $7 billion (Original Post)
Miles Archer
Apr 2017
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kimbutgar
(21,157 posts)1. A lady I sat next to on a flight last week from Venice to Brussels
Told me her son and family cancelled their annual trip to the US because of chump. In a hotel we stayed at in Frankfurt a man at breakfast said they also changed their plans to travel to the US and going to Mexico instead.
Wounded Bear
(58,662 posts)2. Surprise, surprise, surprise...
who didn't see this coming?
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)3. Once the money and traffic numbers for
March come in here in Vegas,we will see the hard truth. January traffic was up slightly but the money handle was off by 4.5%.
Squinch
(50,954 posts)4. Jobs, jobs, jobs, doncha know.
Jonny Appleseed
(960 posts)5. But those three new coal miners must be happy
I'd really like to see job loss estimates.