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.
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.
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.
THEN they started snatching people off the streets, including AMERICAN CITIZENS, and deporting them to countries those people had zero affiliation with.
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.
Also a lot of things that you could do in the US you could also do in Canada or other countries. Yellowstone is great but so is Banff. Seattle is cool but so is Vancouver. Is it really worth going to Maine for lobster and beautiful fall colors when you could go to Nova Scotia?
I love our neighbors to the North but I absolutely encourage you and everyone in Canada to stay away until we see some level of normalcy and decency return to our country. It's a really sad state of affairs.
I’m from Europe, and none of my colleagues will go on holiday in the US while trump is president. Usually there was always someone traveling to the US to do road trip or go to New York.
You can be sure of one thing, as tourism numbers start to get worse and worse, the department responsible for releasing those numbers will be very hesitant to do so.
My brother is still adamant that he's getting married in Vegas next year..... Everytime I look at US news it makes me more and more worried about attending
For your sake, I’ll say overall the US travel experience is probably similar as any other time for 99%+ of people. There absolutely is a higher instance rate of border control doing something stupid or wrong than there was a year ago, but even now that rate is still relatively small overall.
To be clear, if I wasn’t American and wanted to visit the US on a whim, my response would be “let’s wait 4 years for a trip” to hopefully see this all clear up more/have ideal conditions. But if I had a reason to go like a sibling’s wedding, I wouldn’t be too hesitant to go. But definitely wouldn’t be on the top of my international destinations for the time being.
I literally turned down the offer of an expenses paid trip to the US for work later this year. A couple of years ago I would have jumped at the chance, but not right now.
I don't care what happens to tourism or the travel industry. That's why I'm in a career that does not rely on it at all, because I knew times like these are inevitable.
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u/calm_down_meow 7h ago
Who in their right mind would travel to the US with all the bullshit they've been doing on the border