A decline in foreign visitors traveling to the United States has stretched well into the summer
  • orclev@lemmy.world
    85·
    1 month ago

    Spoiler alert, it will last at least a few more years, possibly longer. Trump and his gestapo have made it clear that the US is closed for business as long as he’s in charge. The next great depression is just getting started.

    • thatKamGuy@sh.itjust.works
      17·
      1 month ago

      The more I live through it, the more I am buying into belief that history doesn’t repeat, but it sure as hell rhymes…

      We are currently experiencing our own twist on the “Roaring ‘20s”, an not particularly looking forward to what the next next couple of decades will bring.

  • pdxfed@lemmy.world
    57·
    1 month ago

    It’s appropriate that corporate barons in airlines, hotels and restaurant industries that have long funded Republicans for deregulation and union busting and poverty wages. They’re now getting the full side of the coin which includes:

    • their chosen party destroying perceptions of safety and desirability to popular tourist destinations by claiming they are warzones while he deploys precious military resources to create said zones,
    • their chosen party arresting, deporting and discouraging the employment base of hotels and restaurants. No one else is going to do the work.
    • their chosen party doing incalculable damage to the reputation of the US higher education system and it’s reputation by removing science and academic freedom norms by trying to politicize science, admission and revoke the first amendment.
    • their chosen party during travel into dystopian reality where social media accounts, your sexuality or your political beliefs determine how or whether you may be admitted to the US.

    Airlines will be devastated with reduction in local (poverty wages, can’t afford flights) and international travelers. Hotels will suffer as they should. I hope restaurant owners are decimated.

    Have the economy and society you voted for you greedy, selfish, disgusting fucks.

    • glorkon@lemmy.world
      82·
      1 month ago

      the US higher education system and it’s reputation

      While I wholeheartedly agree with your comment, I cannot help but notice the irony in that particular bit.

    • Frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      4·
      1 month ago

      Whole list of things where the rules were put in for a reason, but people forgot the reasons, and now they want to get rid of them. Sometimes while calling GK Chesterton a conservative intellectual and forgetting about his fence analogy.

      Why, yes, it was all shaving the sharpest edges off of capitalism. It was the only way this system could even possibly work, and they’re dismantling it.

    • phutatorius@lemmy.zip
      1·
      1 month ago

      There are different factions of oligarchs. The Trump administration has been extremely generous to mass-market quack-cure hucksters, legacy media, purveyors of intrusive surveillance tech of all kinds, crypto con artists, religious and home-schooling snake-oil salesmen, venture capitalists, private equity weasels, private prisons and fossil-fuel extractors. They have been unhelpful and often hostile to health care, hospitality and travel, agriculture, science, education, and the renewable energy sector.

      • Tinidril@midwest.socialEnglish
        1·
        1 month ago

        It really doesn’t matter. The oligarchs that weren’t installing Republican fascists were ratfucking the Democratic party. They are as responsible for Trump as anyone. When the whole economy became a scam, it was inevitable that the country would fall to a scam artist.

  • friend_of_satan@lemmy.worldEnglish
    27·
    1 month ago

    The World Travel & Tourism Council projected ahead of Memorial Day that the U.S. would be the only country among the 184 it studied where foreign visitor spending would fall in 2025.

    I see… so this is what Makes America Great Again. Falling tourism spending.

  • krunklom@lemmy.zip
    26·
    1 month ago

    A downturn in travel to the us may be temporary, but America can go fuck itself forever.

  • mrgoosmoos@lemmy.caEnglish
    241·
    1 month ago

    uhhh yeah that’s what we’ve been saying

    we’re not coming back. fuck you guys. give us a solid decade of excellent behaviour and make up for your threats to take us over, and we’ll consider thinking about making a plan to return

  • heyWhatsay@slrpnk.netEnglish
    22·
    1 month ago

    Tourists could also go to North Korea, but for some reason it doesn’t draw crowds, I wonder why.

  • Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.caEnglish
    15·
    1 month ago

    Well that’s what happens when the difference between you and North Korea is the quality of available Kimchi.

  • Treczoks@lemmy.world
    12·
    1 month ago

    Well, if Trump and his insane ideas last past the summer, the effects will last, too.

    Insert Trump picture with subtitle “I did this”.