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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
More on the...Trump slump? US tourism industry fears downturn
Then Donald Trump won the November 2016 election.
Mumford started to hear stories he didn't like - like the British Muslim school teacher who was separated from his students and removed from a flight bound for the US, or that incoming travellers were being asked to turn over their mobile phones and social media passwords.
Last month, Mumford made what he says was a difficult decision: to cancel all his planned travel to the US.
"I don't want to go to a conference if other people are excluded simply because they belong to a particular group," he says.
"I don't feel I can just walk in and think, 'I'm OK', and forget the guy behind me can't come in just because he's a Muslim. That's being a party to the unfairness."
Thousands of professors around the globe have pledged not to travel to the US.
A growing list of Canadian schools who once made regular trips across the border for sports, music and other educational events are cancelling their journeys for fear that foreign-born students could be singled out.
In Philadelphia, at least one large conference worth an estimated $7m in revenue to the city has been cancelled, and the tourism board of New York City recently reversed its pre-election projection that the city would see an increase of 400,000 international travellers in 2017.
The board now predicts 300,000 fewer foreign tourists will visit the Big Apple this year than did in 2016.
The online booking site Kayak reported that searches by UK citizens for US destinations had "fallen off a cliff", and that hotel prices in cities like San Francisco, New York and Las Vegas dropped between 32-39%.
Hopper, another travel site, released data showing that searches for flights to America had dropped globally an average of 22%.
Harteveldt points to a survey his firm conducted weeks before the executive order took place, which showed that in 15 countries around the world about 20% of the respondents reported that as a result of the presidential election they were either somewhat or highly unlikely to travel to the US or had actually cancelled a planned trip.
"The fact that in 15 countries so many people had either cancelled trips or had such an unfavourable view of the United States was really alarming to me as an analyst," he says.
"Events that transpired during the presidential election just created a very bad impression of the US in many people's minds."
Lori, a mother of two boys in Edmonton, Alberta, says they used to make regular trips to the Twin Cities in Minnesota. After Trump's executive orders on immigration, her sons urged her to cancel a trip in March.
"For our oldest, it was out of outrage: the majority of his friends are either visible minority immigrants/refugees, or the children of immigrants or refugees; some of them are Muslim," she wrote in an email.
"For our 11 year old, it was fear: he equates the word 'America' with violence and discrimination against innocent people now."
I mean, in the West anti-Americanism is usually directed at the government, and not individual Americans (who don't act like stupid tourist stereotypes, but we still love them because money). I don't think that will change, especially if the majority of Americans make it clear that they didn't like Trump from the start/have realized that Trump was a terrible mistake.
....The provincial tourism departments in Canada are totally going to try and poach those tourists off of the US.
edited 2nd Mar '17 10:41:07 AM by Rationalinsanity
Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.I like the direction this is moving. Keep making noise, people. There's only so deep the GOP can bury their heads. It's working.
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edited 2nd Mar '17 12:42:51 PM by MadSkillz
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That could be good or bad, depending on how hard they grill him.
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There are 3 possible outcomes to that: He recuses himself from the investigation, suggesting Congress get a Special Investigator on Trump's Russia ties (The most likely), he defies Congress and declares an end to all Russia Investigations (also possible), or he announces his resignation/firing and apologizes for any wrong doing he may or may not have committed (the least likely but not impossible option).
I doubt it; that would've been major news if it was true. From what I've heard, he's just in hiding.
edited 2nd Mar '17 12:51:33 PM by DingoWalley1
That's what I've heard too. His identity was compromised so he went into hiding.
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HAHAHAHA! This is exactly how Flynn went out as well.![[lol] [lol]](https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/lol2v12_4863.png)