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malaise

(284,617 posts)
Mon May 26, 2025, 08:00 PM Monday

Tourists from countries badly hit by Trump tariffs are staying away from US

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/may/27/tourists-from-countries-badly-hit-by-trump-tariffs-are-staying-away-from-us

Data from hotel site Trivago shows fewer US bookings by holidaymakers from Canada, Japan, Mexico and Germany

Holidaymakers in countries hit the hardest by Donald Trump’s trade tariffs are taking the US off their list for trips abroad, according to online travel booking data.

Findings from the hotel search site Trivago also suggest that UK and US travellers are increasingly choosing domestic holidays amid concerns over an uncertain economy.

The company has seen double-digit percentage declines in bookings to the US from travellers based in Japan, Canada and Mexico. The latter two countries were the first on Trump’s tariff hitlist when he announced tariffs of 25% on 1 February.

He FAs - everyone else FOs. Ah well.


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Tourists from countries badly hit by Trump tariffs are staying away from US (Original Post) malaise Monday OP
I'm surprised any tourists at all are still coming here. PoindexterOglethorpe Monday #1
As someone who visited the US there have always been reasons to NOT come. Aussie105 Monday #2
I don't think the tariffs are the reason. I suspect it is the masked government agents Midnight Writer Monday #3
Not surprising Demovictory9 Monday #4

Aussie105

(7,033 posts)
2. As someone who visited the US there have always been reasons to NOT come.
Mon May 26, 2025, 08:31 PM
Monday

Way back in 1988, wife wanted to visit her American relatives.
(She has/had lots of them, her father was a WW2 GI who was rather good at spreading his DNA in both the UK and America.)

Reasons:
1. Drive on the 'wrong' side of the road.
2. Violence, road rage, drug, gun, holdups etc - all the bad stuff that makes it to the international news.
3. Cultism, religious concerns.
4. Concerns about medical costs if things go wrong.

Anyhow, we came over.
And found the place to be nothing like it is portrayed by overseas media.
Friendly, warm hearted people mostly, good food, wonderful natural beauty.

But tariffs and Trump's insanity just add to the perceived negatives about the US.


Midnight Writer

(24,075 posts)
3. I don't think the tariffs are the reason. I suspect it is the masked government agents
Mon May 26, 2025, 08:52 PM
Monday

sweeping up people without apparent provocation and sending them to rot in foreign slave labor camps.

That would put a damper on any vacation.

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