Tourists Boycott U.S. at Record Rates After Trump Takeover; The United States had roughly 4 million fewer international visitors in 2025 than the year before.
Source: FancyNewMe
Tourists Boycott U.S. at Record Rates After Trump Takeover; The United States had roughly 4 million fewer international visitors in 2025 than the year before.
Source: FancyNewMe
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And is World Cup is going to be the one with the lowest attendance ever no matter how many fake Peace Prizes Trump gets from FIFA
They aren’t simply boycotting. Visiting the US has become more difficult and potentially unsafe.
Listen i have voiced my opinion about Trump on the internet. Not even that harsh imho.
Why would i risk that blowing up in my face when i go to the US.
I still want to visit a few places in the US, but not right now , maybe in the future when common sense returns.
Does that include visitors crossing the southern border somewhere without an official checkpoint? Because supposedly there’s a lot less of those too. Supposedly.
Oil and tech (as long as they cut jobs for AI) get the gravy, everyone else… best we can do is make a “contribution” and we’ll see
Nobody needs any of that waste and fraud spending their money in America!! We already have chump and his tech bros that have all the money so fuck the tourism industry!
Tourist abandoning America has widespread economic harm throughout our nation. But worse than that, if the international financial markets abandoned investing in America’s debt, it will be devastating.
We are $39 trillion in debt and desperately need other nations to buy our debt. With a weaker US dollar, terrible trade tariffs and destabilized/erratic leadership in America, they are starting to look at other investments other than America. That would CRUSH our economy.
I’ve been to America and it’s great and I like most American people but it’s off my list of places to visit for the foreseeable future. There’s many other places in the world where they welcome foreign visitors and I will be going to the countries north and south of the USA in the next few years.
Can confirm I won’t be visiting the States for the foreseeable future. Good luck, yanks!
With these gas prices, Americans are boycotting America too.
I would say some of is a real boycott, but a lot of it is just fear. Foreigners, even if here legally, are not safe from the US government anymore.
Meanwhile, tourism (including Canadian) has returned to post-pandemic levels (all time highs). I work in the parks, there’s hard data for this.
This is like the nonsense you see about Vegas dying. I was in Vegas a couple weeks ago. As soon as the sun goes down, the whole town is standing room only. Its in the middle of a desert, no one’s gonna be walking around mid day, of course it’s gonna look dead to a click bait influencer in the daytime. Vegas is also setting new profit records.
Edit: For national parks, they’re expecting around 12-15% increase from last year, and my state is already seeing record breaking traffic. No significant drops for international visitors.
Honestly though, I was personally counting on a massive drop. Public lands really need less over-tourism.
My parents are in south Florida, Canadians are pretty much non-existent down here. The flagship brewery first canceled weekday lunch hours last year, now closed their 2nd location they opened 5 years ago. Such a booming economy, so much boom.
There are 77 million Nazis here. As tourist destinations go, I suggest “confined to your hotel” as the superior alternative.
I feel like we’re past boycotting now, this is an active effort to avoid the US for personal safety reasons.
Whats the total number of visitors? How big is this drop?
So from 70-80 million we had a drop of 4 million. 5-5.5% Certainly high. Worth noting, but that still means 66-76 million people did visit. I wish the drop had been more significant but this is the reality. If we had seen the numbers drop by half we’d see a lot more pushback from businesses against those policies
Why come to a country that may kidnap you and hold you in an ICE facility? They do it to their own citizens and there aren’t any mass protests.
If the Democrats get back in there will be a huge influx – easy boost to the economy.
Those who are from other countries would not be wise to travel to America right now. We have an out of control government agency called Department of Homeland Security and their brutal ICE agents who are under orders to brutalize, harass and take into custody anyone they feel like in order to make their quotas and collect bounty. For your own safety do not come to America now!
I will never return there.
I would say that it’s less of a principled boycott and more of a, “I don’t want to be strip-searched and detained for a week at the airport for having a Trump meme on my phone.”
As a Canadian, I can say I never plan to waste my money on a vacation/ a trip to the USA ever again… certainly not under the Trump regime but also not after unless the following US presidents put in a lot of effort and work to mend all the relationships with its “allies” they have offensively destructed & destroyed under Trump.
No crap. I live in one of the World Cup cities and no one is coming here. Hotels are normal prices and everyone who thought they were going to make a fortune renting their house on Airbnb got nothing.
I recognize that any visit I made to the US would probably be perfectly fine. However, I also recognize that if something were to happen to me, there’s no telling how bad it would get. Currently, cruelty is the point. If something simple came up that caused then to take notice of me, there’s every indication that they wouldn’t work with me to resolve the problem a quick and simple manner. If I was detained for some reason, I couldn’t even reasonably expect that I wouldn’t be moved around the country multiple times. They do that to make your day to day life very uncomfortable, to avoid Judges and lawyers and generally to make it much harder to properly defend yourself.
Given everything that’s going on, I’ll just sit this administration out. Get back to me when the US isn’t being generally hostile towards everyone, including their own citizens.
Why would Biden do this?
Some boycott – more are worried about dealing with racist, xenophobic Americans, ending up in some concentration camp and/or getting deported and stranded in some 3rd country.
This is like calling refusing to walk through the dangerous part of the city at 1AM “boycotting”.
But, the radical right-wing lunatics online and MSM propaganda entertainment networks like Fox News told me “America’s winning” so much at everything right now, I’m confused.
As an American, I appreciate this. Though it’s probably not meant as a form of support, it is support for normalcy.
I went up to Lake Tahoe Sunday. For a Memorial Day weekend, it was not very crowded compared to other years. Trump did that! Oh and gas up there, $6.50 a gal.
Trump drove away the whole world. In a few weeks welcome to FIFA’S American Ebola bowl.
The U.S. is now the average Trump voter asking why nobody wants to date him.
Honestly great job everyone. Let’s get it even lower; there’s a whole world out there for us to explore!
I’m surprised that it’s that little of a drop. Only 5.5% down.
What’s the global visitor rate and each countries visitor rate because when planes are falling apart in the sky everyone flies less.
I always tell my friends from overseas to not pay attention too much to gun violence or political turmoil you see on the news. Visiting the US is usually very safe, easy, and enjoyable.
I don’t recommend people to come to the US anymore. Not until 2029, maybe
Yet another Daily Beast article. Please stop posting this slop tabloid.
I just left a sleepy seaside town where we’ve been for decades, and that depends on tourism for rentals and income.
It was a ghost town. The world voting with its feet and wallets will soon be apparent to the red hats (and unfortunately the rest of us) when we’re treated as pariahs, resulting in lost income and lost jobs.
Nice job America.
I looked it up, and according to Google’s AI, that’s a 5.5% change–no small number. Very interested to see how it all shakes out.
A 5.5% drop isn’t as bad as one would expect with all of the sh!t going on.
I can’t vote in the US, so I’m voting with my money.
Starve the beast
I’m doing my part as a wealthy american, vacationing in Europe, Canada and Caribbean instead of the US. Because is its cheaper even with airfare and the food is a lot better!
Traveling to Canada is cheaper, we have great food, great hikes, tons of festivals, moose and poutine.
Also we won’t throw you in a detention centre for obscure reasons and an undetermined duration.
Choose fun over fascism.
We’re all paying more because one country couldn’t keep their politics in check.
Why the hell would I want to give them more of my money?
I saw a BC plate here in Oregon the other day and almost wanted to thank them for visiting
Remember it’s not JUST the visitations, it’s the money they spend in the towns that RELY on their visitations.
Businesses will close, people will lose their homes, hunger will spread in those communities
But hey, we’re winning right?
Right?
I mean even without Trump and the MAGA crazies, the US still has a murder rate about 5x higher than most of Europe.
Usually when I say something like that someone pops up ‘Well the US is larger’.
What a failure of your education system.
We’re choosing Mexico this winter for vacation
Of course we did, how could we not?