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Op maandag 5 mei 2025 09:50 schreef ZarB het volgende:Lees/hoor toch relatief veel dat mensen plannen naar de VS in de ijskast zetten. Ik ben heel benieuwd welke invloed dat heeft de komende periode (qua toerisme in de VS). Wij gingen ook altijd graag heen, al hoewel ik me wel steeds meer begon te ergeren aan de fooiencultuur. Nu hebben we ook zoiets van mwah...
The number of overseas visitors to the US dropped by 11.6% in March compared with the previous year, including a 17.2% decline in people traveling from western Europe, according to US government data. And given much of the visibility about detentions and deportations of travelers came from mid-March onwards, that figure is due to decline even further, which would be devastating to the tourism industry and beyond.
Canadians, unhappy with Trump’s repeated threats to colonise Canada as a “51st state”, have been at the forefront of the decline. Canada’s major airlines have been forced to reduce flights to US destinations including Las Vegas, New York and Los Angeles, as bookings so far in 2025 have plunged, while car visits declined by 32% in March.
This was supposed to be a bumper year for US tourism. After a steep drop-off for the industry during the Covid-19 pandemic, the number of international visitors was expected to finally return to pre-2020 levels. Not any more.
Adam Sacks, president of Tourism Economics, a tourism research group, said that before Trump’s inauguration his group had predicted a 9% increase in international travel to the US in 2025. They are now expecting a 12% drop in international travel.
“You’re looking at substantial losses this year, about a $10bn loss this year in international travel spending relative to last year,” Sacks said.
“It comes down to the basic principle that we’ve seen over decades, which is that travelers can go wherever they want, whenever they want. So antipathy towards a destination will have noticeable effects. It’s highly elastic to those sorts of external factors, and then you add to that the high-profile detainments which got a lot of press, particularly in Europe.”
People in Spain and Germany appear to have been particularly deterred, with 25% and 28% fewer visitors, Travel and Tour World reported. The UK, Germany and other European countries have updated their travel guidelines for people planning to travel to the US, potentially dampening more travel, and it is already being felt in some of the country’s most popular destinations.
Ticket sales for the Statue of Liberty have dropped by 6% so far in April, the New York Post reported, while hotel bookings for New York City hotels later this year are down 20% on last year. In Los Angeles, where the tourism and hospitality industry employs more than 500,000 people, people are equally concerned.
“The way we are perceived globally is we are blowing up not just our economy but everyone else’s economy,” Jackie Filla, president of the Hotel Association of Los Angeles, told the LA Times.
https://www.theguardian.c(...)fs-trade-war-tourism
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