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Considering that ICE has been subjecting visitor phones to search and has been detaining various tourists for dumb reasons instead of giving them a chance to rectify things, I am surprised that any tourists come to the US at all anymore. You shouldn't come to a country that doesn't want you here.
> maybe people were thinking, ‘we’ll sacrifice some culture war things for this good economy that’s going to come from this administration.’ It doesn’t seem like that’s happening.
I know this is just an anecdote but I fly about six times per year Zurich->chicago and my trip this past Friday the plane was less than half full. I've never experienced that - it's usually full. Would be interesting if they start reducing flights - for example every day there's a united flight and a Swiss flight for this route that leave about thirty minutes apart. They are codeshare airlines and could just cut it down to one flight.
To US voters: you reap what you sow. Next time, vote wiser.
> To US voters: you reap what you sow.

“Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard.” — H.L. Mencken, A Little Book In C Major, https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/51436-democracy-is-the-theo...

If free and fair elections survive, I expect we will. If not, this will likely be a lifelong lesson on the decline of a nation.

The last such threat to the nation ended with FDR's death, and before that, the end of the Civil War. I hope we'll get another chance.

FDR? FDR did spawn many (controversial) programs/agencies but he also got (the world) through WW2. There's something to be said for that. He also picked a pretty good VP. Yes, he overstayed his welcome, but his death in office wasn't something that people were necessarily looking forward to & his funeral was a very somber affair. Can we say the same thing about the Imperial Cheeto in Chief?
I agree, and we have at least 3.5 more years left for this. Plus I believe foreign visitors to the US will continue to decrease as Trump doubles down on this crazy policies.

The funny thing is, except for maybe NYC, most tourists tend to go to red states, where these businesses will get no support from their state gov. This is winning I guess /s

A few facts to go along with the article:

Total value of U. S. tourism is estimated at over $1 trillion.

90% of U.S. tourism is domestic travel > $900 billion.

Domestic tourism in U. S. is increasing--up almost 2%.

For comparison, EU domestic travel expenditures are 43% domestic vs. 57% international.