Why would you even want to go there now, as you can be imprisoned at any moment, and it could take weeks before you get out. With a little luck, you even end up in an El Salvador gang prison.
I have lived in Canada for 20+ years. At first, vacationing in the USA seemed OK since it was so close and, for me, it was still a foreign country (compared to my original country). However, around my fourth year in Canada and my second vacation in the USA, I started realizing it was not worth it (nothing special to see, food often terrible, etc). I have avoided it unless family was involved.
My last trip, again to meet family, was a vacation to Florida around 4 years ago… I hated every minute of it and it was as expensive as going to Europe. I know because we had saved for a trip to Europe which was swapped by this trip instead.
I will never visit Murica again if I can avoid it
Everyone stay the fuck away and don’t contribute to our economy as much as you can manage. Our government thinks it doesn’t need anyone else for anything? Show them what that means.
Problem with this chart is it’s missing US visitors, so it doesn’t tell you all that much about the overall impact.
But man, the argument isn’t some grassroots boycott of the US tourism industry. The argument is that going to an authoritarian country with a mass incarceration habit when you don’t actually have to is a terrible idea. European countries are issuing travel warnings for people. ICE is detaining travellers with valid visas.
Just stay safe, the tourism industry boycott takes care of itself if you do.
Non-domestic tourism is about 10-15%, so not a massive impact.
10 to 15% is the entire margin of a lot of business in the service industry, don’t underestimate the movement. Even 5% is enough to dent the stock growth of the hotel industry. That data also predate the important budget blockage of the national parks and forestry
If I were from another country, I sure as shit would avoid the U.S.
I just returned from vacation in Ireland. One country I’d love to stay. I do have Irish ancestry.
If you have parents or grandparents born in Ireland you are basically an Irish citizen if you want to be.
Yeah, thanks. I’ve heard of the option. I literally have near zero info on my Paternal grandparents.
It’s possible your parents kept some of their documents or know this. It’s worth a try.
Pretty sure I’ve looked. My Dad passed away long ago, '89. Only thing I’ve ever seen is a copy of the family tree. I know that would provide leads for connections.
I’ve connected with my Norwegian cousins. I’ve visited them twice.
I’m sure there is a way to get the records from Ireland.
Probably. I was too busy drinking Irish whiskey and enjoying the music. instead of researching.
why would anyone go to what’s now a literally lawless country. this is not a joke, the US is not safe.
Well that’s some useless labels at the bottom…
I want to go to America, but only to visit the geography and a few specific cities like LA, New York and Miami. But I live almost the farthest place I could be from USA so essentially it takes 3 thousand dollars to go there half of that being a plane ticket.
Consider Montreal, Toronto, and Vancouver instead. Canada has some great geography, too. (The view of Niagara Falls is better from the Canadian side, for instance.)
I understand geography but I’m not sure if I’m sold on the city side
I will be curious ro see the numbers next year; Canada is yet to put a travel advisory on the US, I believe Mexico and parts of Asia and Africa have, and I know countries in Europe have. Fun and exciting times, I have never thought I would live in a time that there would be not one but two times traveling to the US was advised against, and they have both been in the 2020’s.
We have an unofficial word-of-mouth travel advisory in Canada. No one I know is going this summer after cancelling our bookings except for maybe Hockey Tournaments for their kids.
Even then I say good luck…
purely my personal opinion. but i think the impact that done on America’s Tourism are not affecting the “right people” directly. large amount of these trump supporter are in non-tourist area/town/city. it’s gonna take a while for the effect of tourism trickle down to them. (and by the time it hit them, they gonna blame something else and not realize tourism was the source)
Florida, Texas, Tennessee, Louisiana, Alaska, Nevada are the red states I imagine will lose the most from a drop in tourism, though many East and West Coast blue states will lose a lot too.
I think red stades will spiral downwards first. On the west is most likely LA, Bay area, and San Diego.
Bay area has their own set of problems,
Agreed. A shockingly high percentage of Americans have never even left the state they were born in. Tourism may as well not exist and they would hardly feel a thing.
Red states will suffer the most first, Because of their dependency on tourism, not so much for blue heavy states
I honestly can’t conceive of voluntarily traveling to the US if I lived elsewhere. Even if you have perfect knowledge of and adherence to the laws, there’s no guarantee ICE or CBP wouldn’t snatch you up and detain you for no good reason.
Yeah. I’ve been meaning to visit the US for a while, but after reading some of the horror stories that came out about ICE I’ll probably put that on hold for the next couple of years.
I hope one day there will be a post-fascism America worth visiting. Hey, maybe it will be super cheap for you to visit since our economy will have collapsed!
