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.
  • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
    56·
    2 months ago

    Meanwhile, Taco is literally attacking the 4th largest economy in the world and yammering on about tariffs again.

    I just don’t know how the market is still (relatively) up. I think when the crash does come, it’s going to be so rough.

      • DarkDecay@lemmy.worldEnglish
        8·
        2 months ago

        Cocaine, Hate and Broken Dreams is what netflix should name the documentary about the upcoming market crash

  • selkiesidhe@sh.itjust.works
    42·
    2 months ago

    Why the fuck anyone want to come here right now? Dick-tator Dipstick running the show with his mushroom-fellating moron brigade cheering him on as if he wasn’t shitting his pants and reading at a third grade level…

    Selling off our public lands-- you know, the shit people want to see when they come here…

    Getting arrested for coming here AS A TOURIST and potentially being thrown in a fucking concentration camp…

    Everything is way too expensive and untrustworthy

  • FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca
    35·
    2 months ago

    They arbitrarily imprison tourists and then are surprised nobody wants to risk being imprisoned

  • Viper_NZ@lemmy.nz
    28·
    2 months ago

    Even if I wanted to visit the states. Can I risk having my holiday ruined and the money I’d lose if I was randomly turned away at the border?

    It’s not even safe to transit the states at the moment.

    • MystikIncarnate@lemmy.caEnglish
      7·
      2 months ago

      If you got into the country, what’s to stop ICE from picking you up and sending you to a prison in another country?

    • billwashere@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      2 months ago

      As an American even I don’t want to leave because I’m very critical of this administration and god forbid they’d somehow connect me with my online persona. I just don’t want the pain they could cause. I don’t “think” they could deport me (50s very white male) but who the fuck knows at this point. Gravy seals that are cosplaying as some military elite in their tacticool gear are just snatching people off of the street.

    • ameancow@lemmy.worldEnglish
      33·
      2 months ago

      The reality is this:

      They are accosting and hassling/turning away people who aren’t white. And I see pushback on this in the weirdest forms, people saying how most immigration officers are hispanic or black also, etc. That does not matter. This is entirely superficial and ordered by higher-ups and designed to drive up hate and racial tension so we don’t unify. If you’re not white, you face significant chances of being hassled at immigration but there are still thousands and thousands of people passing in and out of the country daily, so it’s not THAT high of a chance.

      As for transit across the states? Outside of some real backwater sundown towns in the deep south, there is a massive cognitive bias at work in the USA that works in two directions.

      I can promise you that you can be brown, asian, hispanic, purple with polka-dots and could most likely bicycle across the entire country and you will be treated with kindness and respect and people will offer to take you into their homes across the country.

      The weird disconnect that people are having a hard time digesting is that some of these same people will go online and scream about how immigrants are ruining our country and that we need to start a race war.

      We don’t live in a coherent reality in the USA anymore. The media world, including the internet and places like reddit and lemmy and facebook and twitter reflect a weird “mirror universe” where people are following an entirely different set of feelings.

      We are in a new world of cognitive dissonance and I fully understand how off-putting that is and I recommend not visiting the country for that reason alone. Don’t give this country tourism money as long as this administration remains in control.

      • CatDogL0ver@lemmy.world
        4·
        2 months ago

        Most people don’t have problems but we are shocked to hear Canadians and Australians were turned back because they spoke out against our regime government.

        It was unheard off. Freedom of speech? Gone. 🗽, diminished.

        • ameancow@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          2 months ago

          I guess because I’ve witnessed authoritarian takeovers of other countries this detail didn’t even phase me, we should have expected it. There are a large number of places in the world where you will get turned away or worse for your beliefs if you’re outspoken. Americans’ deluded belief broadly that we had “free speech” was always a crutch people would use to justify their hate but was rarely used for actual social change.

  • DarkFuture@lemmy.worldEnglish
    27·
    2 months 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
      17·
      2 months ago

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

    • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      11·
      2 months 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
    27·
    2 months ago

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

  • CalipherJones@lemmy.worldEnglish
    22·
    2 months ago

    No idea why a European would ever want to come here. The travel options there are much better and cheaper. Oh and you won’t get thrown into a foreign prison.

    • Retrograde@lemmy.world
      31·
      2 months ago

      I had a Finnish friend visit me in LA a few months ago and he had an absolute blast. There are still plenty good people and things to do and see in the US.

    • BassTurd@lemmy.world
      2·
      2 months ago

      Aside from politics, the US has a ton to offer for someone that wants to experience the world. The Rockies, Appalachian trail, Great plains, deserts, huge rivers and lakes, and a bunch of other natural beauties. Not that mountains and bodies of water don’t exist elsewhere, but when it comes to nature, there’s something for anyone that likes being out doors.

      From a tourist side of things, places like Disney World, Universal, Las Vegas, New York City, and others just don’t have the same thing elsewhere. I’m more into the nature side, but lot’s of people really enjoy the big cities and amusement parks. The Rockies also offer some of the best snowboarding and skiing in the world, and there’s only 1 Appalachian trail.

      Too bad politics makes all of that less safe for foreigners and is actively enshitifying nature.

  • MushuChupacabra@lemmy.world
    21·
    2 months ago

    The Trump Regime has made it widely known that absolutely no one is safe visiting the United States. They’ve made travel by Americans, to American destinations questionable, based on ICE antics.

    Does America want a healthy tourism industry? Then they’d better get busy smashing fascism.

    As it stands, it is simply not advisable to travel to the United States.

    • NABDad@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      2 months ago

      The Trump Regime has made it widely known that absolutely no one is safe visiting in the United States.

      FTFY

  • BigDanishGuy@sh.itjust.works
    20·
    2 months 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.

  • Furbag@lemmy.world
    18·
    2 months 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.

  • Treczoks@lemmy.world
    10·
    2 months ago

    Well, who wants to do holidays is a fascist country, with the constant fear not to see Yellowstone or Niagara Falls, but Guantanamo instead.