Travel Officials Just Admitted Trump Has DECIMATED The American Tourism Industry

[babylonsister]

Travel Officials Just Admitted Trump Has DECIMATED The American Tourism Industry

By Marisa Manfredo
Published on February 24, 2017


The travel company Frommer’s has revealed the shocking effect Donald Trump’s election has had on tourism in America, an industry that contributed 1.47 trillion dollars to GDP in 2014. Frommer’s reports that,

“Experts across the travel industry are warning that masses of tourists are being scared away from visiting the United States, and the loss of tourism jobs could be devastating.”

The phenomenon is being called the ‘Trump Slump’ because it is a direct result of Trump’s election and policies, most notably his now defunct ‘Muslim-ban’ which blocked travelers from seven majority-Muslim countries. Tourism from the countries that were affected is down 80% despite the ban being lifted.

Even countries without a significant Muslim population are sending fewer tourists. Right now all foreign tourism is down nearly 7%. Online searches for flights from foreign countries to America have fallen by 17%, according to Frommer’s.

This is not restricted to holiday-makers. During the first week of the Muslim-ban foreign business travel dropped by an astounding 185 million dollars. European flight searches for the United States have dropped by 11.6%, according to Forbes.

If this trend continues, the U.S. will lose billions of dollars of foreign tourism and hundreds of thousands of American jobs in industries ranging from restaurants and hotels to transportation and stores.

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[riversedge]

1. "the loss of tourism jobs could be devastating. Trump is all about jobs!! dah!!

[KewlKat]

3. Yes the Con is all about jobs....but the question to be asked is he for em? or against em?

His actions would indicate he's against em......

[Eliot Rosewater]

2. Very bad, very bad. But necessary. We are under the leadership of a fascist and this must end.

[roamer65]

4. Just wait until the boycotts begin.

I can see it coming, especially from the EU countries.

[mwooldri]

5. The choice is simple.

Either visit a real banana republic with nice beaches... Or submit to the TSA and come to the USA.

Plus Disneyland isn't just in America now... France, Japan... (now there's somewhere I want to go!)

Why come to the USA for vacation? There's a whole world out there.... probably cheaper too. And no TSA.

[bdamomma]

7. Yes, people will be giving their

business to other destinations....come to a place with pink sand.

[phylny]

11. You're on our list :)

We were in Antigua in January, and both the people who lived there and the people who were visiting from outside the U.S. were like, "WTF happened to the U.S.???????"

[bdamomma]

12. that is the golden

question??? Don't let these mobsters off the hook? But you will have piece of mind when you do get away.

[bdamomma]

6. one man

wrecking ball. This is very bad all around. He has to go.

[leanforward]

8. It has finally happened, documented.

I have been wondering when our economy would start to suffer. Thanks for the posting. We are in a global economy. Nationally, we need different thinking with regards to income/working and the social costs corporations need to pay.

The jobs will never come back. Because of the need of corporations for efficiency/profit/greed, middle income middle Americans and their communities have suffered. Likewise, these same Americans are being fed a line of BS from the GOP.

What is most interesting today, tourism is down. What industry is the dRumpf business in? Is there a reliance on occupancy rates and profitability?

I am a loyal American, in opposition to pRezident dRumpf. Impeach him.

I want the tax returns. I'm for investigative journalism. The press I'm familiar with is not fake. The pRezident is fake.

[babylonsister]

9. I agree, and we're all hurting. I wish someone

knew what to do. Seems our fair citizens are getting the most done. I love righteous outrage!

Yes, when it starts hitting people in the pocketbook, then there will be outrage. For the rest of us, there is outrage daily.

[bdamomma]

13. His TAX returns

would show everything and how he owes money up the ying yang to people. That would be the nail in his coffin.

[phylny]

10. Heck, we're chosing the Caribbean over Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, or North Carolina

for our winter trips. I'd rather give my money to hard-working people who live in places that didn't vote for the destruction of our country (obviously, Caribbean countries are NOT in the U.S., but you know....)

[dalton99a]

14. Why give your money to a hostile backward place?

[Mariana]

16. It's not even that.

Who wants to spend a wad of money on plane tickets and hotel arrangements and so on, knowing there's a chance that at the last minute, they'll find out they won't be permitted to enter the country? That's just foolish. Some people are traveling now on trips that were paid for before the inauguration, and their fares are probably nonrefundable. They have nothing to lose but some time if they can't enter. There will be fewer and fewer of those in the future.

[Corgigal]

15. Hubby and I were just talking about this today.

What country wants us to visit them? Do I need to print not a trump voter on teeshirts, but throw them away for the return flight?

All this crap is stupid, but our reality.

[suffragette]

17. Trump the Job Destroyer.

[MountCleaners]

18. Don't forget the cities

A lot of people come to the US to visit American cities - not beaches. I live in Chicago and love seeing the tourists from around the world downtown in the summer.

Just more proof that he's an anti-urban asshole.

[DFW]

19. If my wife were not married to an American citizen

She wouldn't be coming any more either.

[oasis]

20. Solution: Visit the Blue States and avoid Deplorable Dumbfuckistan. nt