Travel from Canada, once one of the most reliable markets for visitors, has plummeted this year, with Statistics Canada reporting a 36.9 percent and 25.8 percent drop in air and automobile return trips from the U.S. in July, respectively. In May, the World Travel & Tourism Council (WTTC) projected that the U.S. would be the only country among 184 tracked economies to see a decline in international visitor spending in 2025.

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    Good.

    Unfortunately, many MANY hotels around the world are still owned by the same US companies.

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    what did they expect after jailing visitors and harassing people for fucking memes on their phone?

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    “If we do not turn things around to support the livelihood of millions of workers, and protect the trillions of dollars invested in millions of hospitality businesses, we run the risk of forcing many small and medium business owners to shut down.”

    Have you considered, perhaps, growing the fuck up as a culture and not jailing random visitors, harrassing anybody with skin darker than milk, and otherwise being general fucking shitheads?

    As a culture I mean. I know individuals aren’t all necessarily like that. Just enough of them were to put a sociopathic authoritarian into power.

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      23 hours ago

      I would shorten this quote:

      “If we do not […[ protect the trillions of dollars invested […], we run the risk of forcing many small and medium business owners to shut down.”

      If we do not protect the rich, we will force the poor to be unemployed.

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      No, no see, we need to disappear more people whose skin is darker than milk because those people make all the tourists feel unsafe!

      /s

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    It is verifiable that visiting the United States can lead to state sponsored violations of your human rights.

    It is unsafe to go there.

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    I wonder if Trump is gonna buy up a lot of hotels and farmland with his growing national slush fund then use the tariffs to make money by turning around the tariffs

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    I’m sure their insane pricing had absolutely nothing to do with it at all. Nope not that pricing.

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      I’m sure their insane pricing had absolutely nothing to do with it at all. Nope

      That may be reducing domestic travel, but it’s pretty far down the list of reasons why I won’t travel to the USA.