‘Trump Slump’ Looms as Foreign Visitors Rethink Travel to U.S.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We ski twice/year out west in Utah and Colorado. Not going to Utah anymore, all Colorado. Eff them.

Do you only spend money in blue Congressional districts?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We ski twice/year out west in Utah and Colorado. Not going to Utah anymore, all Colorado. Eff them.

Do you only spend money in blue Congressional districts?

I don't spend money at maga businesses if I can help it. So what?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:“A key factor dragging business for some Gulf Coast tourist destinations is the lack of foreign arrivals — particularly from Canada. Canadian visitors, long a lifeline for Florida’s Gulf Coast, are pulling back as diplomatic tensions rise and border crossings plunge. As the Trump administration ramps up its trade war and diplomatic spat, the so-called “snowbirds” from the north are changing their travel plans.”
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/florida-beach-cities-ghost-towns-190000484.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZGN1cmJhbm1vbS5jb20v&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAJQSppuStfXJgAdSmHK2s25D8hMazy8ZYigqJPealnA-TZOs2aaBfUVbVgrVXwV0usF7cxXvMzpu6vW1ohm_w5mosuB7C-HMroHlyk8vm3xxy0eLhQGjg8tXHvXEIafLk-N9DGINCFpkL-uLqofI9m5yk-bcEBTolnDRnq63ea92

My parents live in SWFL and their sole income at this point comes from several investment properties that they rent to snowbirds. This is what they live on in order to avoid touching their investments, which they are counting on to cover costs once they feel they can't live independently anymore. Most of their renters come from Canada or from the Midwest. So far they have no Candadians booked for the season and two of their regulars have let them know they are not coming this year. And their domestic renters are way down, with regulars citing fears about the economy keeping them close to home. So yeah, this is real.

Canadian here. You should let your parents know that the boycott will continue for a while. Snowbirds are finding alternative places to stay - mostly in southern Europe and the Caribbean.

I'm the PP. My dad is a big Trump supporter so this has been fascinating to watch. At first he was telling me it was just a blip and that as the season got closer people would realize they didn't want to really give up their regular winter place, especially because there is a whole culture of snowbird community in his area. But now it's clear that his properties are going to sit empty or close to it, and that even he shifts to a short-term model (which he hates) he still isn't going to have the income he needs. I wish I could say that he'll hold Trump's policies responsible but honestly I think he's too far gone down the MAGA rabbit hole and so instead he'll blame something else on the talking points list.

I’m in Florida now and people are talking about tourism being down but they don’t seem to be blaming Trump…they’re blaming “the high price of everything.” There are none so blind as those who will not see…

Sigh… who’s going to tell them?

I tried to connect the dots for them and the subject was quickly changed. Trump can do no wrong for some.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We ski twice/year out west in Utah and Colorado. Not going to Utah anymore, all Colorado. Eff them.

Do you only spend money in blue Congressional districts?

Pretty much. Sundance also left Utah for Colorado. RIP Utah and your unfluorinated water.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I flew from Dulles airport to Paris a few days ago. Dulles was completely empty - no lines anywhere. When we got to Paris, the airport was the most crowded I’ve ever seen. Last year I did the same flight also in August and it took hours to get through security etc in Dulles.

Yeah, I've traveled a bit this summer, domestically, and there have been very short lines. It's astonishing. I had no idea there were so many foreign travelers. DD went to Italy, and when she came home, it took her just a few minutes to get through customs (or whatever they call it now), very short lines. It wasn't like this last year when I went to Europe. Airports were much more crowded, lines were longer. It took me an hour last summer to get through customs.

The bulk of those foreign travelers are Canadians, so you don't notice that they are foreign.

Couldn’t happen to a better “community”. FAFO

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We ski twice/year out west in Utah and Colorado. Not going to Utah anymore, all Colorado. Eff them.

Do you only spend money in blue

Congressional districts?

Why, yes, I do. I love democracy and MAGA is the worst so… I encourage others to do the same. Grab ‘em by the wallet…and they’ll FAFO

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We ski twice/year out west in Utah and Colorado. Not going to Utah anymore, all Colorado. Eff them.

Do you only spend money in blue Congressional districts?

DP...in a capitalist society, how we spend dollars is effectively a vote of support for something, so personally, yes, we travel to states and countries that we share values with and we support businesses we share values with. I am not giving money to Home Depot when I can give it to Lowe's. I am not giving money to Jeff Bezos when I can give it to the 51st Cooperative and so on. It isn't perfect, because there are some products where the corporate consolidation does not allow for easy bypass, but to the extent I can, I vote with my dollars, and I am not alone in this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm noticing DC is becoming like a ghost town now too. Supposedly "safe" yet who wants to visit a city that looks like a military occupation zone with scenes of racial profiling and random people being detained? Incidentally, arrests are down in DC despite all the increased federal presence....

DC always starts to slow down in late August. Schools are back in session and those still on vacation are at the beach

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm noticing DC is becoming like a ghost town now too. Supposedly "safe" yet who wants to visit a city that looks like a military occupation zone with scenes of racial profiling and random people being detained? Incidentally, arrests are down in DC despite all the increased federal presence....

DC always starts to slow down in late August. Schools are back in session and those still on vacation are at the beach

When kids start back to school, the parents start back to work.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We ski twice/year out west in Utah and Colorado. Not going to Utah anymore, all Colorado. Eff them.

Do you only spend money in blue Congressional districts?

Whenever possible, yes.
Money talks.

[Anonymous]

Las Vegas’s tipped workers say their income has fallen by more than half as tourism plunges

By Ariel Zilber
Published July 28, 2025, 12:20 p.m. ET

Las Vegas workers have seen their income from tips plunge by as much as 50% — despite the recently passed no tax on tips law — as tourism to Sin City takes a hit from President Trump’s global trade war.

“No tax on tips, that’s a rad thing. But it doesn’t really do us much good if there isn’t any people to get tips from,” Charlie Mungo, a 36-year-old tattoo artist in downtown Las Vegas, told the Wall Street Journal.

Mungo said he has made about $1,500 a month in recent months.

[Anonymous]

Decreased tourism is a negative side effect, but we must secure our borders and remove the foreign nationals who pose a threat to our country.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Decreased tourism is a negative side effect, but we must secure our borders and remove the foreign nationals who pose a threat to our country.

Strip searching German teens is necessary?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Decreased tourism is a negative side effect, but we must secure our borders and remove the foreign nationals who pose a threat to our country.

And that can be done without having storm troopers assaulting random people on the streets and removing them to Uganda.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Decreased tourism is a negative side effect, but we must secure our borders and remove the foreign nationals who pose a threat to our country.

Strip searching German teens is necessary?

And throwing a New Zealand mom and her 3 year old in detention for 2 weeks for no reason at all?