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Sunday, April 2nd, 2017

People don’t want to come to Trump’s America: The ‘Trump Slump’ in travel is costing America billions

Author:     Kali Holloway
Source:     The Raw Story/Alternet
Publication Date:     01 Apr 2017 at 11:16 ET
Link: People don’t want to come to Trump’s America: The ‘Trump Slump’ in travel is costing America billions
Stephan:   Colleges that rely on foreign students to pay full freight now find fewer enrolling. That means fewer technical startups, and fewer patents. Hospitals that depend on immigrant nurses and physicians now find no one accepting their offers. Canadian Girl Guides and students are no longer coming to the U.S.. And now, as this story illustrates, we are getting reports from the tourist industry that there has been a significant drop in tourists generally.  All of this is costing the U.S. economy billions of dollars, degrading the country's already marginal healthcare system. Why is all this happening? Because Americans voted Donald Trump president and he is translating White racism into public policy, which will have the effect of harming the daily lives of the people who voted for him. What goes around comes around. Enjoy.

Japanese tourists
Credit: Reuters

Well, that didn’t 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 that’s 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 country’s $250 billion tourism sector.

Frommer’s, 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 […]

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1 Comment

  1. Gus diZerega on Sunday, April 2, 2017 at 7:26 am

    Some years ago a friend and I visited the magnificent country in Southern Utah one Spring. Colleges were still having their classes, and we thought the campgrounds would be easy to stay in. Hardly. Every campground was filled with Germans. A Navajo hogan-store had a sign saying “Wir sprechen deutsch.” One largish restaurant near Bryce Canyon was filled with Germans and Japanese- mostly Germans. The two of us plus the staff seemed to be the only English speakers.

    Southern Utah is a stronghold of Trump supporters. The possible bankruptcy of Trump supporters in these areas is one of the few silver lining in this stupidity: citizenship has responsibilities, and neglecting them should not be cost-free.