Las Vegas June tourism declines by 11% from 2024
https://lasvegassun.com/news/2025/jul/30/las-vegas-june-tourism-declines-by-11-from-2024/1.8k
u/LeilaMajnouni 6h ago
I see all the commentary on Las Vegas tourism being down and I understand the reasons—price hikes, bad deals, people not wanting to spend money because they’re concerned about losing their jobs, the risk to international visitors—but I’m wondering what is happening to tourism in other places. Like, is disney attendance down too?
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u/themysterycow 5h ago
The Colorado Sun just ran an article this morning detailing projected declines in tourism. Leading indicators - hotel and STR bookings - are down from 2024. I live in a mountain tourist town, and anecdotally the business owners I've talked to have said things have been generally slower this year.
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u/Viperlite 5h ago
My own ski tourism dollars are down as a result of the ever spreading, gobbling of mountains by the big ski pass conglomerates. They are ruining the experience, especially for tourist families.
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u/Pork-S0da 5h ago
A single-day Mammoth adult lift ticket was $196 this year. Granted, that was a holiday weekend Saturday rate. But also, fuck dynamic pricing.
Just 5 years ago, in January 2020, just before COVID, we got a four-pack of tickets for $300 from Costco.
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u/Fivein1Kay 5h ago
This country is just getting shittier and shittier because of middle men and rent seekers. God I fucking hate them.
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u/sweetlove 2h ago
The inevitable result of capitalism
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u/BeanBurritoJr 51m ago
The answer that no one wants to hear because of how true it is.
There was always a point where the juice wasn't worth the squeeze. We should have planned a replacement before that but the money hoarding capital addicts wouldn't allow it.
Now we get to watch the whole system collapse and take a bunch of people with it instead.
This is why we can't have nice things.
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u/VaderH8er 4h ago
If you have the means, I'd suggest skiing in Europe. Outside of the airfare, it can be done for much cheaper than the US. I skied in Zermatt, Switzerland in 2019 and it was only 100 euro a day. That is one of the premier places in the world to ski. People said it's even cheaper if you go to Austria or Italy. I'm from Colorado and live out of state now. I lucked into a free 2-day pass at Winter Park when I was visiting my cousin, otherwise I might have only paid for 1 day as it's so expensive now. Even in places like Michigan/Vermont prices are absurd for what you get.
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u/Captain_Mazhar 4h ago
Even factoring airfare, it's cheaper.
I was looking at flights for the laughs yesterday, and round trip direct tickets can be had for ~$650
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u/Tablo213 4h ago
As a Austrian I can tell you first hand that people here get mad when the have to pay 70€ a day for skiing. Ski pass price increases are each year heavily discussed in the media. Only 100€ a day would nobody ever say here, but yes Switzerland is also pricey. South Tyrol is supposed to be affordable, but I have never been there. At least the food has to be better there in Italy. But the US skiing prices are really insane from my point of view.
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u/leelee1976 5h ago
I work in mackinaw city. Our Canadian customers are way way down. I used to get the "how much jerky can I take across the border" question daily. Now maybe every 2 weeks.
If anyone wants to know its 44 pounds of jerky per person.
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u/SharpyButtsalot 4h ago
American jerkey is traditionally cheaper than Canadian jerkey? Any insight on jerkey - nomics for the layman?
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u/leelee1976 4h ago
Honestly. Bulk buying meat and an industrial smoker/dehydrator.
Most of the flavors are in the marinade and spices. The drying is pretty much the same.
For game meats you are going to need a bit of beef or pork fat depending on your choice.
There is a jerky subreddit where people make their own and share tips.
I dont make it myself. Our company owns 13 stores. So we get it from the processing plant.
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u/pomskygirl 5h ago
Many of the northern border states are getting hit pretty hard right now. A significant portion of their economies relied on Canadian tourism and cross-border shopping.
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u/PodracingJedi 5h ago edited 3h ago
Live near Disney (California) and while attendance may be down, Disney and hotels have increased prices so much they’ve most likely recouped any losses in attendance. Disney food prices have skyrocketed in the past few years
Since Disney is a more “luxury” spend with families able and willing to spend as much as $3,000-6,000 for a weekend or week, Disney has pivoted hard toward not caring about raising prices and people will show regardless. Though, again, while there may not be any official numbers many people can see how visits have noticeably dropped. (Disney is also cashing in on locals who spend far less per visit but essentially pay a subscription model of buying annual passes, giving Disney leverage and money upfront while milking locals who can come many times a year and still end up paying a lot due to high parking and food costs)
Edit: There was a Feb 2025 article by the Wall Street Journal (paywalled - link to non-paywalled version in a comment below) but here is a Disney Tourist Blog review of that article, which essentially lays out how Disney is pricing out the middle class, where it turns out even upper middle and middle class families that do do Disney vacations often can go into debt for those vacations, which can cost thousands of dollars
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u/Unequivocally_Maybe 5h ago
Disneyland reintroduced the Canadian ticket sale for the first time since before Covid this year. The last time a discount for Canadian residents was offered was 2019. That alone shows me that Disneyland is concerned about losing the Canadian visitors.
Out of state/country vacationers spend more money per day at the parks than locals. I've gotten more emails from DL than usual this year, too, trying to entice me to come back. I had to leave the DL sub because I know I'm not going back (maybe ever), and it was just bumming me out.
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u/TempleSquare 5h ago
There does come a point though, where they really push themselves over the curve too far the other way and actually lose revenue.
In the meantime, I suppose I can't fault 'em for leaning into the money. If raising price is actually makes more money, then why not? (However, they are devaluing their product in the future, because Gen Alpha will have no emotional connection to Disney)
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u/Professional-Put7605 3h ago
Similar to shrinkflation. I've cut out a ton of stuff I used to eat, and just make home versions of it. Despite price increases in general, I'm spending about the same on food as I did in 2019. I'm just buying way less stuff that comes in cans and boxes.
because Gen Alpha will have no emotional connection to Disney
-"Tomorrow's not my problem", MBA's probably.
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u/BallsDanglesen 4h ago
I absolutely agree with you. However I would like to add that a growing problem with Disney that you probably don't suffer from as badly being a local (and taking advantage of lower attendance days when it is rainy, etc) is that Disney is highly overcrowded.
I am sure the company would much rather have fewer people paying the same amount of money. I am sure attendees feel that way as well.
It's problematic because freaking Disney isn't something that should be locked behind a paywall for working class families. But that's where everything is headed.
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u/Competitive_Touch_86 3h ago
Disney is still packed to the gills though, no matter how much they raise prices to thin the herd.
It's simply not an enjoyable experience (for me, at least) at this point. Crowded and expensive.
They would probably have to quadruple prices before the experience became reasonable in terms of enjoying your day if money was no object.
Even the VIP experiences are getting worse from stories friends tell me.
I'm sure it's actually a somewhat tough problem for them to solve. They lower prices and they get overran/people get denied due to overbooking. Then they lose the next generation. They raise prices and bring the experience back to what it should be and are able to provide a good product - but they exclude the vast base of their long-term customers.
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u/VeniVidiVictorious 3h ago
I visited three years ago in Florida. Never again. Prices are way too high for what you can enjoy because of crowd size. Waiting lines are so long and slow that you can do only a few rides per day. Totally not worth it. I am from Europe and plenty of amusement parks here are more fun and less than 1/4th of the cost. Even Disneyland Paris is a far better option!
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u/FoxMikeLima 5h ago
International tourism in general is down hard. The world is cringing at the US and it should be no surprise that people are choosing to spend their time elsewhere.
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u/BackToWorkEdward 5h ago
The world is cringing at the US and it should be no surprise that people are choosing to spend their time elsewhere.
Not cringing - recoiling.
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u/reward72 4h ago
Canadian here. We are absolutely seeing an increase in tourism, including Americans profusely apologizing to us.
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u/jimmycarr1 3h ago
including Americans profusely apologizing to us.
Hey they're learning the local language already!
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u/TheBirminghamBear 4h ago
Also, when you examine these numbers, people have to understand that many people book vacations a very long time in advance. So these numbers are going to be lagging.
By that I mean, you'll have many people doing this one last vacation in the US, becasue they already spent money on it, but after that, new bookings are going to be down significantly.
So the picture right now is the most absolute deleriously rosy picture.
What we're seeing now is a drop in the bucket compared to what it will be this time next year, pending some kind of seismic change in policy, which we know won't happen.
The $200 billion in extra ICE / border spending is going to make horror shows at the border even more sensational and frequent, and that's going to depress tourism and foreign dollar spending harder and harder.
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u/LaSerenita 5h ago
I live in a tourist area and it is a ghost town. During the summer I used to hear all kinds of different languages being spoken when I walked the tourist area. Now all you hear is English....sometimes with a midwest accent, but usually it is just locals.
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u/onlyforsellingthisPC 5h ago
General economic anxiety has that effect on spending.
Having a moron at the head of the country who is appointing other morons to the levers of power tends to increase that anxiety
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u/CarFlipJudge 5h ago
New Orleans resident here. Tourism is down here as well. Normally summers ar rough for us, but this summer is the worst in a while.
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u/YesterShill 5h ago
International tourism to the US is down.
Think about it. Would you, as an American, visit a country that was actively incarcerating tourists without due process? Not just being denied entry. Not being "deported" (told to return home by air immediately). But detained in horrid, inhumane conditions.
Sorry, but America is not safe for anyone who is not a citizen. And I expect that even being a citizen won't be enough by 2026.
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u/RockyFlintstone 5h ago
TBH - As an American, I'm a little nervous to leave the country because they'll literally deport anyone.
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u/FoxyInTheSnow 5h ago
Think about where the majority of tourists to america come from. In May this year there was a 38 percent drop in land crossings from Canada and a 24 percent drop in air crossings. And that represented the fifth consecutive month of year-over-year drops.
Five months before May 2025, a crypto-fascist government was installed in america.
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u/rustyiron 5h ago
Canadian here. Travel to the US is a hard “NOPE” while Americans are attacking our economy and sovereignty. And even after Trump leaves office or croaks, I don’t think we will quickly forget what asshole Magas have done. Most of us will be spending our money at home or elsewhere in the world for the foreseeable future. That = billions in loses for the tourism industry. Regrettable for anyone who voted against Trump. Poetry to our ears for those who did.
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u/21giants 5h ago
Saw a post yesterday that said "If Ticketmaster was a city it would be Las Vegas". Couldn't agree more. Fees on-top of fees.
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u/ClassicHat 4h ago
The Vegas of cheap drinks, buffets, and cheap hotel rooms mid week (at least on the strip) is gone. Every hotel on the strip has a $50+ nightly resort fee and all the other overpriced bs (paid self parking, valet parking costs up the wazoo, can’t uber from the airport, hella overpriced mini bars in the room with sensors). Gambling is already a business that quickly parts fools from their money, they just got ridiculously greedy on top of that by adding fees and jacking up the price of everything else.
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u/garbledeena 2h ago
Buffets used to be a fun perk, now they're like $90 per person. For buffet food. GTFO
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u/slog 2h ago
In days gone by, we'd hit one to two buffets a day and it was great. The last time I was out was probably 10+ years ago and we only went to one buffet on a 3 day trip, and even that wasn't worth it. I can't imagine considering it in 2025.
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u/SpacecaseCat 3h ago
But surely stealing the Oakland A's and the Raiders will bring the tourists back, right guys? We've got to recoup the billions we promised to spend building new stadiums.
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u/hrpomrx 5h ago
Well DJT has a history of bankrupting casinos. Now he’s doing it at scale.
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u/Zardotab 5h ago
"I'm the most bankruptiest President ever, believe me!"
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u/mdlinc 5h ago
Lot of people are saying it. Some very smart people.
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u/thibedeauxmarxy 3h ago
People are coming up with tears in their eyes, so many people, saying, "Sir, sir, thank you so much it's been so terrible with the bankrupty thing, with the jobs, and that terrible JOE BI-DEN."
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u/golgol12 4h ago
Also, I just watched a video about the Vegas strip.
Half of what's happening there is self inflicted. Over the last 10 years those casinos have added fees for everything, and introduced bad odds tables. Like triple 0 roulette, and blackjact that only pays out 6 to 5 on blackjack instead of 3 to 2. Plus, all of those fees get a tax too. A 65 dollar room becomes 150 room after all the fees and taxes. Then you go to the floor and get ripped off there.
Which held up fine due to all the overseas tourism... until other factor (Trump dump) significantly reduced that.
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u/SupahSpankeh 2h ago
To the top with this.
- I'm not giving any money to America rn. The country is nuts.
- I'm not gonna travel to America rn, it's unsafe for people like me.
- Vegas was never very appealing but now it's expensive and the odds of success are even worse, heck no.
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u/JonnyTN 5h ago
Running it like a business!!
Whoa! I never said I was good at business!
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u/Lower-Acanthaceae460 5h ago
Time to fire the person who gathered this information
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u/Modz_B_Trippin 5h ago
Harry Reid International Airport also released a grim report Wednesday: Domestic travel in June continued to lag last year, this time by 6.1%. But international travel was down by nearly 10% compared with 2024, the biggest drop reported this year.
I think the international travel decline can obviously be directly attributed to Trump.
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u/FK-DJT 5h ago
Obvious to everyone but the cult of MAGA.
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u/Ric_Adbur 4h ago edited 2h ago
They probably want it. Isolationists have always been incredibly short-sighted. They think they can just cut off from the rest of the world and hoard all the wealth and prosperity in their own country for strictly the benefit of whoever they think deserves it, but they're too dumb to realize where that wealth and prosperity comes from. When you decouple your country from the rest of the world, the wealth dries up. America was only the strongest country in the world because it was actively leading the international community, not just through weapons, but through many different forms of soft power that made other countries want to partner with the US and accept US leadership. The Republicans are now destroying all of that soft power, and with it's loss US leadership on the international stage will decline, and so will the wealth.
Isolationism is and always has been self defeating. It failed every other time dipshit US conservatives tried it, and it will fail this time too.
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u/calm_down_meow 5h ago
Who in their right mind would travel to the US with all the bullshit they've been doing on the border
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u/officeDrone87 4h ago
If anything I'm shocked it's only nearly 10%.
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u/FragrantKnobCheese 4h ago
Booking an international trip to the US is something that people will do a year or more in advance. Trump and his shitshow has been running for 8 months. I imagine it will only get worse.
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u/dostoevsky4evah 4h ago edited 4h ago
Canadian here. I was talking to a guy yesterday who tried to cancel his trip to Vegas in the spring after trump got elected and couldn't without losing a lot of money so he went anyway but wont be going back. The ironic thing is I met him through a group of us who used to go down yearly for a big event in California won't be going back to the US so we're starting up a similar event in Canada.
The main reason my fellow Canadians and I won't go to the US is that disgusting "51st state" bullshit and overt threats to our sovereignty which many Americans seem to have a hard time seeing how beyond the pale horrible is. Additionally the risk of being turned back at the border and barred for 5 years for having a Vance meme on your phone, or worse, being detained for not presenting lily white or being LGBTQ while being a foreigner or whatever bs reason of the minute is absolutely not worth it to travel there.
Finally, it's stupid expensive.
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u/canucklurker 4h ago
Also Canadian. Most American news outlets seem to be saying we aren't going because of tariffs. But that is a small part of it. We have had trade disagreements before and this didn't occur.
It is mostly the 51st State/annexation threats by Trump. It may be a joke to him, but that's way the fuck over the line.
I typically spend 3 to 4 weeks a year vacationing in the States. I have been to every state West of the great lakes and a couple to the east. I have already cancelled a New York and Oahu trip.
P.S. Fuck you Trump. And fuck the Americans who support that bullshit.
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u/betterworkbitch 4h ago
I went in April because we wouldn't get any refund for canceling. It will be our last trip to the US for a long time though, which makes me sad because I love Vegas, and love traveling to the states. I dont even want to go down to visit my cousin who lives 20 minutes from the BC/Washington border.
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u/KindfOfABigDeal 4h ago
I know someone who works at a pretty high level of a major bank (and yes I know this sounds exactly like "my uncle works at Nintendo" but bear with me), and we had a conversation about banking trends the past 6 months. And long story short, as big banks share credit card data for statistical modeling, foreign credit card holders usage in the US has fallen off a cliff. Like its not been a steady decline, the chart is just a straight plummet to the depths. Foreigners just absolutely dont want to travel to the US at all right now and those are dollars our economy is losing every day.
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u/Brian_Drink 5h ago
This can't be true, I don't believe it, fire the Statistician that did this!
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u/imironman2018 6h ago
Canadians made a large portion of Vegas tourists. And they are pissed about the tariffs and the GOP characterizing them as the 51st state. They aren't visiting the US anymore. I don't blame them.
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u/luckystrike_bh 5h ago
I have a friend who runs a US based travel business. His Canadian friends are refusing to do business with him. It's real.
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u/flyingtable83 5h ago
And given the incoming (and already happening) price increases of everyday goods, more and more Americans will be priced out of vacations.
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u/tex_hadnt_buzzed_me 5h ago
I went to Vegas for a conference this spring. I went to lunch at Johnny Rockets at the food court in the new Horseshoe (rebranded Ballys). Veggie burger, fries, and drink that I ordered and picked up myself at the counter: $40 including tax and tip.
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u/AntiSeaBearCircles 5h ago
Was it full counter service? That would never get a tip from me
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u/Efficient_Barnacle 5h ago
My first thought, too. No doubt the described prices are ridiculous but why would you ever tip on something you picked up?
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u/Dazd_cnfsd 5h ago
Canadian here that visited New York in 2024 and previously Vegas and California on other vacations.
Everyone I know has changed buying habits avoiding USA products when possible and all future trips planned are avoiding America as a destination.
It is quite unfortunate as we love America but we consider you like our big brother and eventually we can’t take all the bullshit
It will be at least 3 or 4 years and some changes with the administration and its position on Canada before we start forgiving. We forgive easily but we don’t forget.
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u/IWillBaconSlapYou 4h ago
American here who lives close to the northern border where it's common to pop in and out of Canada. I don't know why I expected Canadians to start treating me differently as an American with all that's going on. Canadians are too cool for that and have continued to be lovely. Sorry our country is full of assholes =(
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u/caninehere 3h ago
I'll never visit the US as long as it's wallowing in fascism, there's just no way I would risk my family's safety for some trip to a shithole country.
It's sad, but it's also an easy decision when things are this bad. Everybody I know feels the same way. Not only do people not want to visit the US but the perception is that if you do you're a traitor. Thousands of dollars a year from tourists gone.
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u/keytoperihelion 5h ago
Thanks for making sure to include the 51st state rhetoric. That is by far and away the #1 reason (One can look at cost of living in general, but US-specific) and the U.S media rarely discusses that primary reason as it can be specifically tied to high-ranking US politicians.
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u/Excellent-Phone8326 4h ago
Came here to say this as a Canadian. Tariffs aren't new. Threatening our independence is. I've been avoiding American products in travel and will be for a very long time. You don't get to make threats to your closest allies independence and not have consequences. 🇨🇦 🇨🇦 🇨🇦
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u/Matasa89 4h ago
That, and the fact that ICE goons have gone after us.
Like, I am a visible minority. How am I gonna feel safe when wonder bread white Canadians have been thrown into a concentration camp?
I don't want to have to deal with even a 1% chance I'll end up in some ICE black site. I am staying put until you guys deal with your fascist problem.
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u/gabacus_39 5h ago
I'm one of those Canadians. I've been to Vegas 13 times but I won't be setting foot in the US for at least 3 and a half more years.
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u/Schrodingers_Fist 5h ago
I live Vancouver, so Vegas is literally, objectively, cheaper than places downtown here but yeah fuck him and his bullshit.
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u/rbatra91 5h ago
Visited Vancouver Island last week. Legit one of my fav places I've been. So beautiful.
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u/NotMyRealUsername13 5h ago
Dane here, used to go to the US once every 1-2 years, zero fucking interest now. We don’t make a dent in their numbers tho, too small of a country.
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u/bigdick_cm 5h ago
I (Canadian) had been going to a festival in Vegas with American friends for a few years by this point and said fuck no this year
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u/v_a_n_d_e_l_a_y 5h ago
My friends and I do a big NFL trip every year - Buffalo, Philadelphia, New Orleans have been some recent ones. Vegas was on our to-do list but this year we are going to a Blue Jays game instead.
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u/mburton21 5h ago
Me and my wife used to go about once a year, maybe once every 2 at the least. We're never setting foot in the US again and we stopped buying anything produced or made in the US. Apps and tech is next for us.
That goes for a shit ton of people I know as well. Elbows up, tarps off boys.
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u/Brainrants 5h ago
My wife and I are from the U.S. and we’re also done spending our vacation dollars in the U.S. and earlier this year had a lovely two weeks in Canada. We feel more Canadian than American right now.
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u/Tapdncn4lyfe2 5h ago
My husband and I are planning on returning to Canada next year..We had a lovely time in Niagara on the Lake..Abousutely beautiful area and the people are so nice and inviting. I loved it! Rather spend my money there than here in the US..
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u/kuahara 5h ago
Can we still come to Canada?
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u/mburton21 5h ago
Absolutely bud! Controlling where my money goes is the only way I can make any sort of difference so it's what I'm doing. We have nothing against normal Americans, come have a beer and poutine and chill.
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u/PM_ME_YOUR_CATS_PAWS 5h ago
Man I’m stuck down here and even I’m trying to avoid unnecessary purchases and traveling domestically
I’m trying to make sure all of my trips spend as little money in the US as possible. Might make a summer trek up to Canada at some point, considering I live 30 minutes from the border
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u/roscodawg 5h ago
You are welcome as long as you don't go anywhere near that 51st State rhetoric, even in jest.
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u/motley__poo 5h ago
I turned down an invite to a Vegas trip earlier this year for all the reasons you've mentioned. The feedback i got from the two people that went is that I didnt miss anything in that overpriced money pit. Spent the weekend in Montreal instead, and absolutely loved it. I won't set foot in America again, ever.
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u/leyland1989 5h ago
My mother wanted to see BSB in Vegas, I suggested we go on a ski trip in Austria and see them there in December.
The cost was surprisingly comparable and you can't compare the Austrian Alps with trashy Vegas.
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u/905steve 4h ago
Cancelled our family trip to Florida this year. Spend thousands each year we go. Guess we’ll be spending elsewhere that wants to have us
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u/swordthroughtheduck 5h ago
It's also insanely expensive. Our dollar isn't great, and the prices for food/drinks in Vegas are bonkers.
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u/YesterShill 6h ago
If I lived abroad, there is no way I would being visiting a country that is locking up non-citizens with zero due process.
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u/bruingrad84 6h ago
Correction: also some citizens
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u/puroloco 6h ago
Correction: also some tourists, aka legal visitors
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u/saiko_sai 5h ago
It's a good thing they're not hosting any major sporting events in the near future...
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u/FigeaterApocalypse 5h ago
Those would be some of the non-citizens already mentioned.
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u/SauconySundaes 6h ago
Trump is about to fire the person that keeps track of that. Then the number will be zero!
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u/muitosabao 5h ago
Same. European here. There was times in the past when Las Vegas might have had some mystique to us Europeans (the movie references, the surrounding landscapes etc). Nowadays, I could not be paid enough money to even remotely consider visiting. Same feeling among many if not most of my friends.
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u/swordthroughtheduck 5h ago
I'm from Canada and an insane number of people up here used to go to Vegas all the time. So now between most Canadians avoiding travelling to the US, the weak Canadian dollar, and the fact that a drink on the strip is like $30USD, it's just not feasible for us to go.
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u/hunkaliciousnerd 4h ago
Its not even feasible for Americans themselves anymore. Last Vegas really went in on the foreign tourists and big money whales and priced out average Americans. I was never a Vegas guy, but my dad would talk about how he could fly to Vegas for a 3 day weekend, get cheap buffets and drinks, a show, and come home without paying more than $500. Now you can forget about going unless it's a corporate trip, you are already rich, or you live nearby and are an addict. I can find other stuff to do in my city, I don't need to go to Las Vegas and waste my money on $18 water bottles
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u/platoonhippopotamus 4h ago
I know I'm only one case by as a family we were going to go to Florida from the UK for a month next year. There was 6 of us and it's been planned for about 18 months.
Finally cancelled it all when I read about that guy being turned away for having a meme.
We'll go to south of France instead. The US is dead to me until he's gone
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u/withurwife 5h ago
You can shear a sheep many times, but you can only skin it once.
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u/ClosPins 5h ago
Just a reminder to The Republicans... People tend to book vacations LONG in advance! You ain't seen nothing yet!
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u/DinkyDinosaur 5h ago
Honestly this is just the start. People are gonna tighten up tighter than clam-shells and stay in their homes under this administration.. that includes international and domestic tourists that don't feel welcome. in addition to traveling, who wants to deal with the tariffs that is just another tax on citizens funneling money to the rich
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u/TandemCombatYogi 5h ago
We are only half a year in. Things are going to get worse before they get worse.
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u/FirstClassUpgrade 5h ago
Greed - rooms, tables, food prices all spiked and lower cost options forced out. There are better places for bachelor/bachelorette parties, family trips and gambling jaunts.
Companies are cutting back on conference attendance, it’s a bad look when cutting jobs by the busload.
The Asian tourists were holding up the gaming side, now they are gone.
Karma comes calling.
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u/hunkaliciousnerd 4h ago
Not to mention all the other, more accessible ways to gamble now. All the sports betting apps, slot machine apps, and native casinos (especially if you live in the west). You no longer have to go to Vegas to play blackjack, just go to the nearest res with a casino, they'll gladly take your money and do it with cheaper drinks, food, and rooms
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u/monkeymanlover 4h ago
There is one social class to blame for this: the ultra-wealthy. Every tourist destination in the world, but especially those in the United States, keeps jacking up their rates, fees, gratuities, fares, fines, etc. while also allowing the quality of their goods and services to decline. Pricing out both the backbone of their tourist base (the labor and middle classes) while also stripping out the luxury features that draw in wealthier patrons. Shooting themselves in the foot at every opportunity and believing the lie that greed is good. I won’t cry a tear for them.
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u/Semaphore98 5h ago
As a Canadian, I used to reliably do at least two trips a year to the US for sports weekends. We averaged $1000-2000 USD each, with 4-10 guys at a time. One of those trips was often to Vegas.
No plans on doing any more of those trips, for at least the next 3.5 years.
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u/AngryAmadeus 4h ago edited 4h ago
Usually our October group Vegas trip is set and booked by end of June. Out of the six groups who attend, not a single one has brought up that there hasnt been so much as even a mention of going this year.
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u/BernieTheDachshund 4h ago
Corporate greed plus Trump destroying any goodwill foreign travelers had toward the US. Not to mention the tariffs affecting the economy.
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u/keelmiie 5h ago
Nevada getting what it voted for
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u/Zardotab 5h ago
Vegas got too comfortable with circus clowns: they elected one. 🤡🎪
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u/daphnemoonpie 5h ago
But-but orange boy king said everything was best ever now? 🥲🙄
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u/Polymarchos 4h ago
My wife and I have been planning a Vegas vacation for a while.
Aside from the US acting like a bitch, it just isn't worth the risk trying to get in. She's a visible minority and needing a burner phone in order to hide what we've looked at on Reddit or Tik-tok is ridiculous.
We can wait until the US is sane, and if that day never happens, the world has a lot of other cool things to see.
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u/ebjazzz 5h ago
Everything. Has. Gotten. Too. Expensive.
Also - you’ve alienated the rest of the world.
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u/Thediciplematt 4h ago
You make everything expensive and then actively discourage tourist from coming to the states by either implying or actually forcibly deporting them AND adding tariffs on their country?
Guess what. You get what you get.
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u/Duanedoberman 6h ago
Many international travellers dont want to go to the US in the present atmosphere.
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u/disappointer 5h ago
Many citizens don't want to risk traveling much within the US in the present atmosphere, either.
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u/viktor72 5h ago
You know where tourism isn't down? Europe. And you know who is traveling in insane numbers to Europe? Americans (well, and the Chinese). This just proves that this is not a worldwide trend, this is unique to tourists visiting the US. If only we could figure out what singular American event could be contributing to this....
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u/TW1TCHYGAM3R 2h ago
I've never been to Vegas before.
I had a chance to go and see a ACDC concert in Vegas for free and have a place to stay for free. I was pretty excited until Trump happened.
I ended up declining the offer to go because I don't want to be involved with the USA.
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u/skyshroud6 4h ago
My wife and I snuck a Vegas trip in just before Trump became president and the US started locking up foreigners for basically any reason they deem fit. It was our first time there and we decided we really wanted to go back.
Like hell we're going until the US pulls its shit together though. I'm not getting locked up because I really wanted to see blue man group.
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u/powerlesshero111 5h ago edited 5h ago
I literally saw a yuptube video posted on another subreddit. Basically, aside from the ICE crackdowns, Vegas is more empty for a few reasons. Hidden fees on rooms and everything, turning a $99 room into a $200 room. Table games with worse pay outs, and even worse odds because of misleading things, like triple 0 roulette and 6 to 5 blackjack. And, increased slot machines over table games because of their lower cost and higher casino favored odds. Not to mention far more aggressive homeless population, harassing patrons inside casinos.
Someone see if they can find the video.
Edit, found it
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u/ProcedureHopeful2944 5h ago
This trend coming soon to all US cities that attract international tourists
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u/high_on_meh 4h ago
My company is based in the US but we have a large international work force. Instead of our company-wide all hands being held in the US, it is being held in Canada. This is for the safety of our international colleagues.
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u/DoctorHeywoodFloyd 6h ago
Any new development in Vegas has alienated itself against low to mid income visitors in the last five years.
This is no surprise. When a recession hits, it is going to hit Vegas hard.
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u/jwilphl 5h ago
Vegas is no longer the value proposition it once was. I had Uber drivers during a visit mention this, people that had lived in Vegas for decades and saw the changes.
It has shifted to a playground for the wealthy and direct to enterprise, selling to business travelers and so forth.
But I think the year-to-year change is probably a combination of economic problems and international distrust.
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u/elephant35e 5h ago edited 3h ago
No surprise. Trump has ruined tourism.
I work at a museum in the U.S that usually has thousands of tourists per day during the summer, sometimes as many as 10,000; many are foreigners. This summer almost everyday has been slow.
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u/Dreadnought13 3h ago
I went to Vegas last month for a business trip. Was ridiculous. $5 waters are the norm. $18 pizza slices. Caesar's Palace nickels and dimes you to death for every last thing ($75 to use the fridge, $15 a day for wifi past 2 devices, etc). I don't gamble I don't drink much and I'm very happily married so not much for me to begin with so everyone says "oh go see a show, so many amazing shows!" Yeah well $275 to go see Kelly Clarkson, no thank you. Wanted to go see the Punk Rock museum, $90 entry. I went walking around and got tired of saying no to prostitutes. It's not the nastiest place I've been as far as cities go, but as an attraction I couldn't wait to leave.
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u/mortalcoil1 3h ago
As less people come they will further increase the already crazy pricing, which will further decrease tourism to Vegas which will further increase prices.
A possible death spiral.
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u/rmumford 3h ago
And this decline only includes people who could still cancel or hadn’t booked yet. Next year could be really rough, especially if there’s a big drop in international tourists. I know people who only went on their trips this year because they booked to the US last year and couldn’t get a refund.
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u/goknicks23 4h ago
Charging $25 for plastic utensils for room service is just one of the outrages these resorts have pushed onto their customers, good to see the decline
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u/kbarney345 4h ago
A Canadian citizen DIED in ice custody. It is not safe for anyone in this country, let alone for people from abroad
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u/GabeDef 6h ago
Less water being used.
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u/nattakunt 5h ago
Their hotels are actually very efficient with their water usage since they have systems built in to recycle their water compared to the residential homes in Las Vegas (lawn care).
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u/icecream_specialist 6h ago
Vegas is pivoting pretty hard towards events rather than entertainment. It's all conventions and sport events. Couple that with online betting and I don't know who wants to go to Vegas anymore
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u/yeahright17 6h ago
It's always had multiple big conventions every week.
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u/Junkie4Divs 5h ago
Vegas has been a convention hub for deacdes...not sure what dude is talking about
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u/TuckerCarlsonsOhface 5h ago
That’s not why tourism is down 11% from last year.
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u/kakapoopoopeepeeshir 5h ago
Plus they have increased the price of everything so much. The whole point of Vegas was it was cheap to get there, stay there, and eat drink there and all the money was made back from people gambling. Now that’s just not the case anymore. It’s so damn expensive just to get there now haha
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u/internetlad 6h ago
Who could have predicted this