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Simply remarkable fall off in tourism to the United States.

"The US is down at least $30 billion in tourism for 2025. International boycotts and a loss in appeal to visit due to Donald Trump has resulted in millions of trips canceled." source: Anonymous on Bluesky

Edit: original source flowingdata.com/2025/04/15/dec…

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It costs thousands in legal fees to be retrieved from detention.

Detention means the potential for being vanished. No showers. Overcrowded. No toothbrushes.

No one wants their social media accounts examined by ICE and CBP.

The "visa integrity" fees are extortion.

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No surprise, but also this data is from the first quarter of the year at best, I would enjoy seeing updated graphs.
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The modest fall-off in foreign tourists visiting the USA is...a good start.
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I also just read that there is a new proposal in which US border officials could ask foreigners for five-year social media history before entering the US. bbc.com/news/articles/c1dz0g2y…
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The scale for the 2025 part of practically microscopic compared to 2024. Do we just not have data for all of 2025 yet? Or did they just squish all of 2025 into that one sliver for each country?
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We essentially declared war on the entire civilian population of Earth and people understood when we did it.

We're fucked for the foreseeable future in every way.

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The original source of the graphs seems to be this: flowingdata.com/2025/04/15/dec…
in reply to Daniel Hernández

However, they published a new article saying that it was not such a decline, but a delay on the trips: flowingdata.com/2025/05/05/eur…
in reply to Daniel Hernández

@daniel
Thank you: this seems far more logic to me as Europe invented Fascism (Italy) and Nazism (Germany), other countries provided them a lot of arms (stretched upwards) until 1945, and all these countries put very quickly an end to the chase of both after Nuremberg, while a lot of the guilties fled to hide them to USA, among other American countries, some with the help of governments of this time. Thus today, they are as old as Trump if ever older. They are still there, still active, still psychopathic, and numerous enough to feed MAGA relays even to help Putin, and obviously to maintain US tourism from EU "as usual".
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@A_Mimi @daniel

Well, here is an article published in July that reports "a sharp decline" in international arrivals:

travelandtourworld.com/news/ar…

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interesting would be whether european tourism is up in the same timespan... 🤔
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Normally this time of year, #Tucson becomes flush with snowbirds who come to avoid winter at home, and they bring a lot of business. But we are also extremely busy with shoppers from Mexico through the season.

I don't see any numbers of Sonora license plates like used'ta. Granted, I haven't been to a mall in ages. But road traffic is not the thing it ever was.
I think snowbirds are missing as well. It's quieter out there.

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I left my hometown because the culture and economy was trapped in the Fox/Murdoch far-right culture war. It's a resort town on the Gulf of Mexico largely dependent upon wealthy Midwesterners who own a second house there, and European tourists. Brits, Germans, Canadians, Italians, ruZZians, and many more would be filling the beaches at this time of the year.

It's a very class (cast) obsessed place. Equally among the intergenerationally wealthy, and the rednecks who build their homes, clean their pools and staff the restaurants. Crabs in a pot mentality among them all.

This will be blamed upon Biden, or ignored like the 3,000lb. elephant in the room that it is.

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Even more interesting when keeping in mind that at the Dollar fell and made trips to the USA cheaper (theoretically more attractive pricewise)
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It's not a typical "boycott". People are just scared to get jailed at the border or detain randomly inside the country.
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@lostgen
nah, I think it's that culturally the US is not interesting enough to enjoy
in reply to Pete

@pete @lostgen add to that the stiff entry fees being introduced for foreign tourists to visit their National Parks.

bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1kpnx…

The natural landscape is still there and is still pretty wonderful - I've visited in the past - but of course now being degraded by opencast mining, oil or gas exploration, or losses due to wild fires or logging the old wood trees, all the result of Trump and his industry backers' contempt for the natural envornment.

in reply to MarjorieR

@marjolica @pete @lostgen You might want to check next door:

parks.canada.ca/voyage-travel/…

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I've been searching the source data but haven't found anything that fits it on the source mentioned (on my phone, so not super efficient). I've found this so, which suggests a change more in the direction of -1% to -2% trade.gov/i-94-arrivals-progra…
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While this graph is from April and we should take it with more than a grain of salt, I would like to point out that each of the source countries listed are predominantly white, the very people that Chump and his MAGAts say they want more people from. So the people with the least amount of worries regarding ICE raids
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@nikatjef

It would be very interesting to see accurate tourism stats from predominately brown and black counties. Suspect they would be through the floor.

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@nikatjef white Europeans are not exempt. A young German was imprisoned and sent back because he had only booked accommodation for the first 10 days of his holiday because he wanted to be flexible.
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@briankrebs I dunno, these are the official figures and to me it looks like business as usual....

trade.gov/international-travel…

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source seems to be Financial Times: flowingdata.com/2025/04/15/dec…
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And it will continue, it's not the flu, this is a downward turn for at least 3 decades. GOP may be gone by then but the damage is done, the trust is gone, the respect is gone and the money is also: GONE!
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as a UK resident I would not consider travel to the USA to be safe right now.
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Not to mention valuable, productive members of society who have left the country because they fear persecution for beliefs or lifestyle.
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Yup, we no like Trump and his ICE hulagans. It musn't be a surprise to anyone though.
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USA : 5 ans d’historique de réseaux sociaux pour passer en tant que touriste français ?
next.ink/213877/usa-5-ans-dhis…

Les États-Unis restreignent de plus en plus le passage de leur frontière en obligeant le partage avec les autorités d'informations personnelles comme l'historique des réseaux sociaux. Les services des douanes américains envisagent de conditionner l'entrée de ressortissants de pays qui n'ont pas besoin de visa pour des séjours de tourisme ou pour affaires de moins de 90 jours au partage, entre autres, de 5 ans d'historique de réseaux sociaux.

#USA #usa_fascism #réseauxsociaux #GAFAM #microsoft

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@Remittancegirl @the5thColumnist
I miss the Canadian tourists. I wish we could get rid of the American tourists.

I joke, it's an important industry here (in Maine).

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JohnnieMac
@Remittancegirl @the5thColumnist we used to go down (to the US) once or twice a year but took a pass this year. Did a couple of trips across Canada and a nice (Rick Steeves) trip to Europe instead.
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If you think that's precipitous...

www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/36…

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From what I'm seeing in the news, even Americans should be wary about travelling between states. Unless, perhaps, it's to a Trump golf course.

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