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US International Tourism Market Share Is Falling Under Trump (buzzfeed.com)
An anonymous reader writes: The United States' slice of the international tourism pie is declining, according to a new report from Foursquare that looks at data from millions of phones worldwide. The US share of international tourism dropped 16% in March 2017 compared with the previous year. And it declined an average of 11% year over year in months spanning October 2016 to March 2017, according to the report. The drop coincides with the final month of the US election, the Trump transition, and the early months of the Trump administration, which notably imposed a travel ban on people from several majority-Muslim countries in January 2017 that was eventually halted in court but is currently under appeal. Declines in tourism market share from people originating in the Middle East were more pronounced than the rest of the world, down 25% this January, along with a smaller decrease from South America, Foursquare found. The data accounts for the percentage of international tourism coming to the US and not the absolute number of tourists, but Foursquare CEO Jeff Glueck told BuzzFeed News that it's unlikely tourist visits to the US increased while share declined. "I don't think you'd see a 16% decline in international market share and absolute numbers being up. I don't think that's compatible," he said. "The volume of tourism doesn't change that fast."
As a Canadian who vacations at least 2 to 3 times a year in the US, I can confirm that we will be curtailing our travels to not only some of the new Trumpisms we simply don't want to deal with (e.g. threat of being heavily annoyed at the border) but the extremely unattractive US Dollar exchange.
Seriously though, Florida and border states (we live next to NY and VT) will feel it the most. We have seen it in the past, and some places will get desperate enough to sell stuff at par.
On a different note, Americans, please come to Canada and spend your money here, we don't really hate you, we love your tourist dollars. Buy stuff.
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[...] we were 98% sure hillary was going to win.
At best, Hillary had a 95% chance of winning. It was never 98%.
so lets not try and put this on trump.
Let me guess... let's blame the high dollar for a $10B slump in tourism.
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Now you can keep saying nothing has been found, but the FBI is finding stuff every day, and is building a report. Donald Trump admitted (to the Russian ambassador at the center of the investigation) in the Oval Office that he fired Comey to end the Russia investigation.
LOL.. Ever heard of a "pull quote" and know what a "sound bite" is?
Look, If Trump *really* fired Comey to stop an investigation into something, it was a really, really stupid blundering attempt to do so and would have been obviously doomed to failure. If you hold Trump in *that* much distain and think he is *really* that stupid and clueless, I don't see how you can believe he would be smart enough to be colluding with the Russians to throw the election, yet manage to not leave a smoking gun at the crime scene for some reporter to find. Trump may be brash, braggart and a rich white guy from New York, but he's obviously NOT that stupid or he'd lost his money a long time ago...
Personally, I'm called to question your objectivity here... But hey, to each their own.
"File to fit, pound to insert, paint to match" - Aircraft Maintenance 101
By your logic Germany is not a nation either.
"It's such a fine line between stupid and clever" -- David St. Hubbins, Spinal Tap
I'd be the last person to defend Trump, but I have to add my voice.
As a Canadian, I had my social media accounts checked only once. It was brutal, 4 TSA guys asked me to login into both of my email accounts and facebook to go over months of texts and emails. Many questions were asked and many personal pictures were viewed. They had snarky comments to add but they did not find anything illegal. They did fixate on why my sister in law visited her family in Pakistan many years ago and if she saw terrorists, saw guns, saw bombs there etc etc. Things that make you go WTF.
This went on for more than 2 hours while I paid for the long distance data plan. I have not before or since been checked this way, but I've been super careful of adding bearded friends on facebook or any jokes I share. Anything I write might be held against me years later as I go to my vacation passing through the USA.
This was during the Obama administration.
"Give orange me give eat orange me eat orange give me eat orange give me you." -Nim Chimpsky