I wanted to visit before the collapse, but it didn't work out for multiple reasons.
Now I'm doubly sad that I didn't go. Because if I would indeed decide to go now, it would be a coin toss if a random typo in some papers would land me in a gulag
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I wanted to visit before the collapse, but it didn't work out for multiple reasons.
Now I'm doubly sad that I didn't go. Because if I would indeed decide to go now, it would be a coin toss if a random typo in some papers would land me in a gulag
Well people don't want to be sold into slavery to El Salvador. Big surprise!
I don't blame anyone, there is no need to personally see the circus that is our country currently. Watch the circus from stands unless you want to be a part of it.
Disneyland tickets are now affordable?
Those charts are soon going to look a lot worse. I know of many people who had already paid for their vacation before the tariffs were announced, so they went anyway. New bookings for flights from Canada to the U.S. are down over 70%.
Yeah I think so too.
People have always talked about a long weekend in New York or a cruise from Miami.
Now it's just dead. No mention of the US at all, other than the blithering baboon.
Would not want to be a trans atlantic airliner this sunmer
At this point, I wouldn't be surprised if you are trans-atlantic, their DEI policy mistakes this for something LGBT-related and you face automatic detention.
For sure family summer holidays are the sort of thing most people would be planning round about now. The lines at Disney World are going to be shorter this yearโฆ
Only 20 to 30%?
i really hope the majority of countries boycott the 2028 games and don't show up in la.
Nazi Germany, China and Russia/Soviet Union set a rather bad precedent for this.
Attendance will double you say?
Yeah, I bet barely anyone will boycott it.
Couldn't agree more, people need to get a lot more overt on this.
I won't set foot on US soil again as long as Trump or any other conservative is running this country.
It's not even just about how you get shafted at the border nowadays. I simply don't want to visit a country that is ruled by misanthropic fascists.
And I think that many people will probably feel the same way.
Yep. For the same reason I wouldn't visit Russia, Turkey, and the likes.
Yeah, I don't want to get detained for a week and sent to el salvador.
I don't blame any non-American for staying out of the insanity soup going on here.
Even as a middle age, "white privilege" guy, I'm concerned about traveling outside the U.S. and coming back through immigration. I'm liberal, protester, and strongly anti-Maga on the socials.
My country is vast. My country is huge. My country is beautiful and welcoming too. My country wonโt jail you because of your thoughts. My country is Canada ๐จ๐ฆ and we have amazing vacationing spots.
If you enjoy the risk of getting suddenly jailed NK or Iran are way better.
no shit, dont want to have some border police going through my phone and putting me on detention only to deport me back later
Totally understandable, a lot of us who live here wish we didn't right now.
I'm worried of traveling outside of the US because that means I have to come back in through the borders again and be subjected to invasive searches
Land of the free
On the bright side, if they refuse you entry you get to live somewhere else.
I wonder how low it will go. I was tentively planning a holiday trip to New York and another to a conference in Chicago. Both of which are totally off the cards having seen the horror stories of people having their phones searched, refused entry and even being detained for extended periods without justification.
Instead, I think I'm going to finally make a long wished trip to Canada.
I do feel sorry for those working in the US tourism and hospitality industry. It's hardly well paid work and often filled by new migrants and the young / students. It won't start recovering until the craziness of ICE abates but it's the sort of damage that is fast to take place and takes a long time to heal once it's reversed - and a reversal isn't even on the cards for the foreseeable future.
That whole "throwing people in jail for weeks for thought crime" thing isn't as inviting as Trump thinks, apparently.
I feel bad for the Olympic organizers. Good luck luring tourists to the Olympics.
Olympics are probably the worst organization out there.
Fuck em. The Olympics are now the ultimate corporate show because of American influence. Best to die anyway as they certainly aren't a show of amateur sport any longer and haven't been for decades. It's a major cash grab for a few wealthy sponsors, advertisers and IOC committee members more than a place for "underrepresented" sport to have a competitive international arena.mot to mention at all the pro athletes who ruined the concept by attending.
All those ungrateful tourists that can't stand the idea of getting mistakenly deported into a High Security Salvadoran prison and then being left to rot there because 'yeah, it's kinda annoying but we can't get him back, you know'.
If I were the all-mighty orange dude, I would put a 146% tax on every single tourist that is refusing to come spend their money in the USA! They're nothing but traitors! They should pay! And maybe I would invade their country, to show the world who's the boss.
"People not coming to the US on vacation will be labelled as foreign terrorists. They're doing great harm to a tremendous American industry." - Trump, probably
Quite literally, as this is going on, Ron DeSantis, the governor of Florida is trying to convince everyone in the state that it would be a really good idea to just... massively reduce, if not entirely get rid of property taxes.... and base government revenue off of higher sales taxes... on tourists.
Florida is ... almost certainly the US state with the highest proportion of its economy/tax revenue ... tied to tourism.
I struggle to comprehend this level of stupidity, to the point that I am more inclined to believe DeSantis is just trying to make himself king of a rapidly economically declining and literally sinking fiefdom.
Agriculture and fishing? scared all the immigrants away.
Tourism? tanking.
Property values? also tanking.
Property insurance? fleeing the state, no more mortgages.
Uh uh what do what do?
Tax break!
If Dems get the epithet 'tax and spend', Reps get the epithet 'Slash and burn'.
What a fucking moron.
European tourism to the USA in free fall
That is what you get when you transport your tourism in a Boeing plane.