Halls of Shrewd'm / US Policy
No. of Recommendations: 6
The American travel industry is stressed. Fewer international travelers came to the United States this year — 4.5 million fewer compared with 2024. (Last year, those visitors spent nearly $179 billion on travel in the United States, a number that is expected to be $6 billion lower in 2025.) “May was terrible. June was terrible. July was terrible. August was terrible, September and October and November,” a bike tour operation in Key West, Fla., told The Times. “That’s not going to pay the rent.”
—New York Times
No. of Recommendations: 4
And the five year social media lookback gives people another reason to avoid Shinyland.
Well. MAGA voted for a xenophobic, white supremacist, Christian nutter theocracy. I would note that the hospitality industry relies on a lot of immigrant labor, the same immigrants the regime wants to deport. That invites the musical question: does it matter if there are no tourists, when the hospitality industry can't find anyone to do the work?
Steve
No. of Recommendations: 3
This administration has made it clear that they don't want foreigners. Visa application fees are ridiculous, CBP is hostile...what do you expect? I wouldn't want to come here either were I a foreign tourist. It would be like me going to Afghanistan...maybe an amazing place, but I'm not going there.
No. of Recommendations: 4
This administration has made it clear that they don't want foreigners.
Back when Bush #43 was insisting that the Bill of Rights only applied to citizens, I suggested that US visa offices around the world, as well as boarding gates for planes and ships headed for the US should have a big sign:
WARNING
To all non-citizens of the US.
Be advised that, while in the US, you will have no rights. You can be detained without charge, denied legal representation, imprisoned without trial, and rousted as roughly and as often as authorities wish.
Steve
No. of Recommendations: 0
Tourism is very BAD for the environment. It's very wasteful of resources and caters to the upper classes and upper middle classes.
Americans going to other countries to spend their tourism dollars should stay right at home and spend those dollars here.
Similarly, foreigners from other countries should spend their money in their home countries.
I can't believe Leftists who claim to believe that climate change is a clear and present danger and an on going catastrophe and that we are in the midst of a Great Extinction rivaling the Permian Dying would ever want to encourage the environmental destructiveness of tourism.
