Man Called Aerodynamics
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Add 'tourism industry' to the pile of things that Trump voters were willing to sacrifice just to stick it to brown people. Right next to 'their own healthcare'.
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'Trump Slump,' a Devastating Drop in Tourism to the United States
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Same, usually it is a group of us (10 families) to annually go camping/shopping in the US over the summer. My non Caucasian friends always made light-hearted jokes about their experiences crossing the border.. It's not light-hearted any more, all of us cancelled and we are hitting up the Maritimes instead.
I feel bad for the small towns, they were anyways nice with us
Messofanego
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This is anecdotal, but all the muslim people I know aren't going to travel to USA for a while because of Trump even when we had previous plans.
Makes sense. Thanks for posting it.
LucidMomentum
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manzoman96
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Well if I didn't live here I don't think I'd want to come now either.
efyu_lemonardo
May I have a cookie?
My best friend moved to the US last summer.
Been wanting to visit him and see his new baby boy, but I'll wait a little longer and see if I can't make the trip cheaper if the dollar comes crashing down.
Been wanting to visit him and see his new baby boy, but I'll wait a little longer and see if I can't make the trip cheaper if the dollar comes crashing down.
FantasticMrFoxdie
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can't blame them
who would want to come here anymore
who would want to come here anymore
Turbo Killer
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Why would they come here? So they can end up shot while having a drink in a bar by some lunatic like those two Indian guys.
bootsthecat
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I am still of the feeling the strong USD has more of an impact here, than people saying omg Trump no wai. The only concrete stat referenced in the OP is the volume from the 'suspect' countries...no shit.
Also, I was trying to find some good numbers as to what is the overall impact from tourism by foreign travelers (I've only seen overall numbers including domestic tourists)...any links?
Things have already changed a lot. In Canada I've been seeing regular smaller news stories about people being stopped on the border and being required to give up passwords for their phone or computer so that CBP can check their social media accounts. And this isn't just brown/black/yellow people being asked for this, this is white people as well.
I don't want to go to any country where one of the first things they do if you look suspicious is want to go through your computing devices and see what you've posted on social media. If this were happening to Americans going to a Muslim country, most of them would throw a fit about that and scream how something has to be done about the invasion of personal freedoms.
Trump supporters prefer not having to look at foreigners to having jobs supported by foreigners, so this is a win for them!
And of course, the damage from this will fall mostly on cities. More and more it's clear that Trump has no plans to help the parts of the country that are suffering, but a lot of plans to drag the rest of the country down to their level, and what's sad is a lot of his supporters genuinely will take that as a win.
And of course, the damage from this will fall mostly on cities. More and more it's clear that Trump has no plans to help the parts of the country that are suffering, but a lot of plans to drag the rest of the country down to their level, and what's sad is a lot of his supporters genuinely will take that as a win.
SuperStiltzkin
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All those tourists were terrorists anyway. The country try is safer without them! More like tourorists!
I think you're basically right about your assessment. Tourism was just more libtard inclusive, snowflake thinking. No "real American" makes an honest dollar by bending over to people who should be answering to the innate greatness and superiority of Americans.
Besides, given enough time, those foreigners won't be foreign anyway, once their countries have been conquered by the righteous, white, God fearin' folk of America who are just fulfilling their destiny,
WrenchNinja
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I'm brown with a beard. Going to the U.S. is out of the question.
Trade deficit blowout incoming (not just cause of this, but it doesn't help).
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13032917.2013.772529
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13032917.2013.772529
GameAddict411
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Logic left the window from the Republican side for ages now. It was never about real tangible reasons, it basically comes down to hate, fear and ignorance. In Trump's case it's not all of them with side of hypocrisy and lies. I think at this point corporation should sue Donald Trump for damages.
So many French people seem to hate tourists, especially the kind that are avoiding US.
I often worried about food I ordered getting tampered with.
There are still so many amazing places to visit (and the list is almost identical to the list of non-Trump-voting states, outside of a few national parks that'll probably be sold off pretty soon anyway). But yeah even if you visit a legit state with decent people, I could still see not wanting to be harassed by border control.
Unfortunately this hits mostly the coasts I believe? Not really a threat to Trump's base so it's unlikely that they'll feel, acknowledge or care about the damage to the tourism industry.
But hey at least the coal jobs are coming back!
But hey at least the coal jobs are coming back!
victreeb3l
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Yup. And they dont care because no one was gonna visit their shit hole towns anyways. Selfish fucks.
JosephManderley
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I won't visit the USA whilst that clown is president. Although there are many places in America I'd like to see, I will take my tourist spending elsewhere.
BocoDragon
or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Realize This Assgrab is Delicious
My mother (a white woman from Canada, politically centrist) said there is no way in hell she's setting foot in the US right now. She took a flight overseas recently, and paid more in order to avoid a stopover in the US.
Trump is poison.
Trump is poison.
Yup, already booked for FLA in April.
Dollar sucks against my CAD but my parents are footing the bill to take my kids to Disney. Just had to pay for flights.
Won't be going back anytime soon. Note: I live 2 hrs from Border and would go over a couple times a year to shop.
Art Teitlebaum
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Pure anecdotal evidence: My wife and I canceled plans for a six-week vacation to the Southwest next autumn. We canceled because of all the hassle at the border and the general political climate. We're heading to New Zealand instead.
And we are hearing it from a lot of people in our circle of friends and acquaintances: USA?? Now? Not as long as this protofascist is in charge.
And we are hearing it from a lot of people in our circle of friends and acquaintances: USA?? Now? Not as long as this protofascist is in charge.
XOMTOR
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Nope, doesn't compute.
But Trump is smart businessman who turned around 6 bankruptcies. He'll know what to do with this
*facepalm*
Prototype Viktor
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They are just trying to make big business flight companies smaller by having them make less and shrink to small mom and pop American Airlines
If it makes you feel any better, NYC is pretty much with you on this.
The fact you have hundreds of refugees fleeing Minnesota and East Coast US into Manitoba and Quebec into Canada in the freezing weather and snow should tell you how many people want to stay in Trump's America. Come visit Kansas where some white guy will blow you away at a bar for looking Middle Eastern...
I live in New York and we do benefit from tourism, even when tourists can "break our stride" or something. (We do appreciate you, but just walk briskly.) If more tourists decline to travel, it will hurt a lot of workers but the city will survive. We aren't as monocultural as we used to be, thanks to everything from the persistence of big company headquarters to finance to Silicon Alley. I fear for areas that really do live or die on seasonal travel though. Red state or blue state, that could be business they really can't live without.
Be careful driving in NZ if you're from a right-side country. Don't end up like this tourist.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/motoring/896...-to-government-as-bad-driving-video-takes-off
CrocMother
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Tourists basically only go to liberal cities anyway.
I usually go to the US 3 times a year. There's a bunch of cities and regions I genuinely love.
Right now, though, I have to no desire to go back. It's a shame what this POS president is doing to your country and it's gonna take a long while to recover from it (if ever, honestly).
Everything Obama fought for is going down the drain pretty fast. It's hard to believe the biggest democracy of the world is now subject of ridicule, specially after the press revoking stuff that just emerged.
In truth, it started when the Senate refused to acknowledge Obama had the right to point a Supreme Court member. That was the beginning of the end imo.
It's a shame and a pitty.
Right now, though, I have to no desire to go back. It's a shame what this POS president is doing to your country and it's gonna take a long while to recover from it (if ever, honestly).
Everything Obama fought for is going down the drain pretty fast. It's hard to believe the biggest democracy of the world is now subject of ridicule, specially after the press revoking stuff that just emerged.
In truth, it started when the Senate refused to acknowledge Obama had the right to point a Supreme Court member. That was the beginning of the end imo.
It's a shame and a pitty.
sankt-Antonio
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I changed plans once he got elected. Switched visiting the US to chilling in Mauritius with the family while on parental leave.
I am planning to go back to my country to visit some relatives and stop in the US to buy gifts and pretty much anything I see to take back home. My idea was to spend a week there, this was last year but after Trump I am going the other way around and finally visit Chile and Argentina, I will not travel to or through the US for now on and will recommend the same to all my relatives.
Messofanego
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For USA's amazing variety of scenery and nature. Colorado especially is appealing to me.
gutter_trash
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the Grand Canyon is full of liberal holy water
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