Millions of international travelers are increasingly choosing to avoid the United States.

The United States had roughly 4 million fewer international visitors in 2025 than the year before, marking a 5.5 percent decline in overseas tourism, according to CNN. Foreign visitor spending also fell by more than $8 billion.

Aside from the collapse in travel during the COVID-19 pandemic, it represents the sharpest annual drop in international tourism in roughly 20 years.

  • 🍉 DrRedOctopus 🐙🍉@lemmy.world
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    12 days ago

    not a boycott.

    if McDonald’s has a new CEO, and his first move is to replace the meat with literal human shit, he can’t call it a boycott…

    Truth is it ia dangerous for anyone to visit the US, that isn’t a boycott, it’s self preservation

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      12 days ago

      Yeah, I agree that boycott is really not the right way to describe what’s happening here

      Theyre not doing it in coordinated protest, they just dont wanna fuckin come here 😅. Can’t imagine why, its like a historical reenactment, you can step back in time to when everything was worse! What a cool vacation /s

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    12 days ago

    It’s not just tourists. International conferences held in the US are seeing record low attendance.

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    Is it really a boycott when the USA doesn’t want people entering? There are too many stories about citizens of formerly allied countries that ended up in jail.

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      12 days ago

      It’s really a white nationalist minority ruining it for everyone. Here in MAGAland there are more interracial relationships and more Central Americans than I remember a decade ago.

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      Please please have both Iran and USA win their groups so they can play and the US loose. I want to see the Trumpty Melty.

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    I would strongly advise you, do NOT travel here. If you must, stick to major cities. If you aren’t white and fluent in the American dialect of English, you may be in danger of an ICE raid even then.

    Above all, stay out of the interior. It’s a different world, and you might find yourself at the mercy of some local warlord (spelled “constitutional sheriff”).

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    Why would you come here, just to get interrogated at the border, with the very real possibility that you would be denied entry, wasting your entire vacation? And that’s your best case scenario.

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    11 days ago

    Why would I want to visit a third world country rife with civil unrest and government sponsored domestic terrorism?

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    12 days ago

    I’m boycotting vacations in the United States and I’m an American. I just got back from a 4-day weekend in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Other countries deserve our vacation dollars more than ours does. Until it stops being led by children making stupid fucking decisions.

    As a joke I asked a cashier at the NSLC where the bourbon was. She laughed. She knew I was fucking with her. For those not in the know, Canada boxed up all their bourbon and sent it back in retaliation to all of Trump’s bullshit with tariffs and what not.

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      asked a cashier at the NSLC where the bourbon was

      They’re making some outta Vernon; but we have an thing about cross-region trade, so you’d have to grab some in Kelowna from the BCLDB.

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    A restaurant near me has been relying on a nearby foreign exchange program, basically employing all of them.

    They are possibly going under due to lack of staff. My area has a low population. The foreign exchange students aren’t coming this year. They’re down to weekends only with a couple teenagers trying to keep it afloat.

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    I’m not sure it’s exactly a boycott so much as “yeah I don’t want to be sent to a concentration camp”