Bizarre AI photo at the top, no author byline, no link to the source of the data (if there is one), no specific report mentioned, just “the latest analysis”.
This looks to me like an AI-generated article where someone either prompted it to “summarize” a real report or else it hallucinated a report based on whatever supposedly relevant internet news it’s eaten recently.
Going to the site that comes up for a search for World Travel & Tourism Council and looking around on it, I don’t see a report on this topic.
Anyone who willingly goes to the Untied States is a fool
Still a vast majority then despite headlines. Which isnt surprising.
Why would you not want to visit a fascist hell-hole where human rights don’t exist, the rule of law has broken down, and you can be abducted, imprisoned without charge or deported at any moment just for the crime of being foreign?
While in here US citizens can freely come and go as they please… unfair, to say the least.
There have been far too many examples of ICE detaining law biding citizens at this point. I’m a US citizen and I don’t even want to travel too far.
Who gets the worse end of that? All things considered I’d much rather have a free country to come home to.
If are thinking about coming to the U.S. this summer for vacation, please do not. Things are bad here. Worse than the news is letting on, even. PLEASE don’t come here. Things are only going to get worse this summer.
^— it’s worse than the news is letting on.
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Dont worry I’m not going to the USA even if I’m paid for it.
My boss asked me to head our international exchange student program, which includes traveling with groups of students, and my acceptance was conditioned by not having to go to the US.
Is it worse then Lemmy filtered news lets on? (Edit: just an honest question. News here is pretty negative, I just wonder if the lived experience is even worse)
As the other commenter said, it depends on where you are. But I would say, overall yes. Nobody really wants to talk about how bad it is/shaping up to be. The people preparing for serious defensive action are all dark, and everybody else is somewhere between denial, anger, or depression.
There are a lot of spinning plates in the air, and they seem to be all falling down at around the same time. A small example of this is the 20,000 new ICE agents that the administration has order to be quickly hired. Back during the campaign, they had Trump loyalists at his rallies sign up to “work for the Nation”. That’s almost certainly the pool that they will be hiring undertrained, and armed Trump lackeys from. That means within the next 2.5 months, Proud Boys, Boogooloo Boys, Patriot Prayer, Patriot Front, J6 insurrectionists, and many other actual Nazis will have badges, guns, and a mandate from the federal government to round up immigrants, dissenters, disabled, and anybody else they deem to be “undesirable”. And that’s just ONE of the plates spinning in the air.
With ICE already acting like nazis as it is, that sounds very scary. Something I heard is that people may already be self-censoring themselves for fear pf the consequences - not just at the high levels but also normal citizens
Yes, definitely.
people is still in denial, over here in the west, they act like nothing bads going to happen or is happening. i have met people that were recent magat converts because they watches j-rogan over the eleciton year, its sad. they are completely unaware of why YE is supporting musk.
Depends on where you are in the country currently.
Generally, no. But it’s still probably risky to go through border control as a non-citizen, especially if you’re brown.
Things can change and are kind of expected to get worse by many, but for the vast majority of people here life hasn’t changed much. Yet.
I read the entire article and not once do they mention this is due to Trump. They just say the current administration. God these fucking media outlets are spineless fucks. Did we have this net negative $12 billion dollar in tourism during the Biden admin? The media is so fucking scared or just complacent with Trump they try everything in their power to not openly criticism him. Fucking pussies
To be fair, this is much deeper than Trump. The cancer runs deep, in the veins of all the legislators, judges, advisors, and voters who enable this behaviour unchecked.
None of this will end when Trump dies. It’ll only end when we finish the job of Reconstruction.
Revolution but with what leaders? We have none. They’ve built this revolution over the course of almost a hundred years. We haven’t even gotten started.
Current regime* is what it should say
The Trump Regime. Give them the foreign dictator treatment
Might be something else too. Many people are so sick of hearing about certain people that they’ve set up filters to avoid any news about them. So what better way to get past that than to just keep the references generic enough to get the views through such blocks but still be accurate.
No shit. Most media outlets are owned by wealthy Republican donors.
Trump is a symptom, and a dumbass one at that. The entire fascist Republican party is to blame.
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Remember all the shit that guitarist from Tenacious D got for saying this.
The democratic party in the US is also mostly dead. Which is not the worst of outcomes considering who they became, but theres no party to push back against fascist republicans anymore.
They’re not scared they’re literally ushering in what’s next. They’ve gotten the memo, the old neoliberalism capitalist hegemony is done. They are vying for their place in the New World.
Travel and Tour World is a magazine that sells trips on Cruise Ships, of course they’re not talking about the fascist regime.
Lol good point
MSMS are largely owned by conservative billionaires, its not surprising they are all the same in how they report. this goes for newspapers too. Zaslav was more than happy to have malone manage CNN, when they bought it.
Media love trump it adds more click everytime that dipshit does something stupid, they get richer while americans and the planet suffer for it
besides that, the msms are all owned by conservative billionaires, or very complicit billionaires.
America First Policy
I dont think thats the issue buddy. Its the “America is now Fascist” Policy that makes people not want to visit.
I think people would visit even if we were fascist. The thing keeping everyone away is the significantly greater than zero chance that you and your family might get picked up by ICE and questioned under duress for several days simply for trying to visit Disney World.
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Yeah, we’ll see. It’s basically expecting the rest of the West to act differently. Maybe they’ll surprise me. However, it’s not like I don’t have perfect examples right off the top my head like France and Roman Polanski for instance. Kinda makes me think that people are shit no matter where they’re at, and they’re gonna visit if they feel like visiting here. If the marketing is good enough, the fascism won’t matter and I would be willing to bet on it.
No, I don’t think that Europeans are somehow better humans than any other human on the planet. We’re all shit and we’re gonna prove that correct.
Good. I hope thousands of landlords can’t afford their extra homes and are forced to sell, driving down housing prices.
Last time housing prices crashed in the USA, people’s incomes crashed as well or their mortgage obtaining ability did. All it meant was that the already rich and corporations were able to buy up real estate cheap. Did not remotely help 90% of the population.
All it meant was that the already rich and corporations were able to buy up real estate cheap.
Something like half of all real estate is owned by private equity.
If you genuinely care about wealth consolidation among the ultra-rich, and you seriously want to do something about it, there’s a Little Red Book with some helpful advice.
But just propping up Boomer real estate values for another ten years isn’t an answer either. It’s a losing game to pretend you can outwit Blackrock on home ownership.
They will only be replaced by richer landlords
Yeah, private capital can just roll in and buy it all up, great!
its usually the already corporate landlords, will bought off by even larger ones, like blackrock.
Let’s fucking go! Keep it up everyone, make people here really see and feel the consequences.
I’m under no illusion that anyone who voted for this will “feel bad” or regret their vote. As we have been seeing the people who voted for this do not regret their decision perse. However, the hate that fuels them will only take them so far. If things get bad enough quick enough they might be able to remember it the next time (if there ever is one). I think the cult following of Trump and their emotional sunk cost fallacy won’t let them see that voting for Trump was a bad idea, but there is a small chance they will recognize and reject it in whoever comes next.
I’m under no illusion the above will actually happen, I just think it’s the best that can be hoped for.
I work with some of those “haters”. They will never blame Trump. Even when their wallets are getting hurt, they will just blame Democrats and the world.
One haters I work with worship Trump and she is an Asian. How ironic
Same here. Everyone I work with is pretty MAGA. They all suck
they drank the kool-aid of the cult, theres no turning back for them. they might change thier minds if they lose all thier money though.
Nope, nothing will ever change their minds.
I’m happy because this will hurt Florida’s crappy economy the most.
Florida is a shitty place to visit anyways, it’s all mosquitos.
Mosquitos interrupted by daily rain and a hurricane or two every year.
Not to mention the sinkholes. And anacondas and alligators and that crazy slug that eats houses or some shit. And worst of all, the Floridians
The mosquito is the state bird of Florida.
Maybe people will finally stay the fuck out of that state.
which is mostly sustained because of DISNEY being in the state, floridas citrus and houseplant exports probably isnt going to make much of a difference.
Not only tourism. Scientists are cancelling conference attendances of fear they‘ll get harassed or deported (which already happened). It’s such a shame because science need exchange.
Just had a prominent colleague return from a conference in Italy. He was stopped at the border and questioned for several hours, making him miss his flight.
And he’s getting a lawyer and suing them right?
And don’t come back with some type of bs about how is he supposed to do that? I keep hearing from literally everybody.
Trump sues everyone in this country. You could sue anyone for anything sue them do something anything. Literally anything is better than nothing - write a fucking article! I keep hearing about everyone’s fucking friends. I don’t care about your fucking friend. Where are they? Why aren’t they fucking writing something? Why aren’t they doing altering? Literally anything with their position they have that’s much higher than the people I’m working with now who are attempting to help and they’re literally artists and people that work in grocery stores and retired folks meanwhile, scientists are getting stopped at the border and their friends are and telling us this bullshit while I don’t see any first hand accounts barely and when I do, they are just on social media!
They have power in their position where the fuck are they? Why aren’t they fucking telling everybody? Why aren’t they fucking suing them? Do something, anything, just do something!
Republicans are actively anti-science and defunding scientific research wherever they can, so they won’t care.
They’ll have to hold their conferences somewhere where they’re safer.
We are lucky that we live in a time with the Internet so they can still communicate with each other pretty easily. In the past when things like this would happen they didn’t even get that. Hopefully we can still make progress in spite of this
its actually worst than that, scientists are fleeing the us, to europe, nz, or australia, and canada. the only STEM majors that can flee are the ones with BS/AND MS degrees, theres very little market them out there.
and farm laborers, the owners are whining they have to do ACTUAL FARM WORK NOW.
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I’m not coming to America and sacrificing my life for their piece of shit government. They can fix their own fucking problems.
I think a boycott is a pretty effective way to protest and they are in a unique position where doing so is noticed by some.
I live in a major tourist city, and the word around town is that there will be a steep decline from foreign visitors, but many are still coming anyway, because they’ve had their vacations booked for months, and it’s too late to change.
But if this keeps up, next summer will be a bloodbath.
we wont see any actual data/decline until winter, or next year. trump is totally obsessed with tariffs, and he will keep doing this for his pump and dump schemes.
More like America Worst Policy
Are americans, both left and right, still believing that their dear leader is a business genius? I think an elementary school grade 2 committee would do better.
when did left americans ever think he’s a genius
I believe 6 of them did, but it was the 80’s.
As a US citizen I’m nervous to do international tourism as well after hearing so many people get detained at the border. It’s crazy.
Who wouldn’t want to vacation in a country where one could be snatched up, held for weeks or even months, and finally deported? If you’re very lucky, you’ll be deported to your home country.
So what you’re saying is: Foreign tourists can save money by buying a one way ticket to America, and we’ll send them back on our dime.
On the return flight you may be chained to your seat on the plane, but hey, it’s free!
