Is President Trump actually responsible for the decline in tourism in the United States? Experts say no, Trump haters desperate to make him look bad say yes.
However, a bit of fact checking shows us that international travel to the United States began declining in 2015 during Obama’s reign and it’s been steadily declining ever since. Now, leftist media and Trump haters desperate to find ways of validating their hatred have branded this decline in tourism as the “Trump slump even though it started long before Trump became the 45th POTUS.
The U.S. share of the international travel market declined from 13.6 percent in 2015 to 12.9 percent in 2016. By 2017, it had dropped to 11.9 percent, back to levels not seen since 2010. Remember who had just been elected in 2009? Yep, Obama. So shouldn’t it actually be called the Obama Slump or the Barrack Slump or the BO Slump?
What is the real reason for the Trump Slump? Who knows. Experts have weighed in with varying opinions however most believe it’s largely to do with a strengthening US dollar which makes travel to the United States more expensive for foreigners. Funny that growth of the United States dollar combined with economic growth would make the United States a more expensive tourist destination, but that’s what it would appear to be and not, what the media have coined the “Trump Slump.
By the way, it’s not a decline in tourism from the whole world, as a matter of fact, there’s 4.8% growth in Canadians tourists to U.S. destinations.
And even with less tourism, and by less we are talking small numbers here, about 3.9% reduction which equals about 100,00 visitors. As a comparison, Michigan Stadium has had over 115,000 fans in it’s stand, according to Fred Dixon, president and chief executive officer of NYC & Co., New York’s official tourism organization “The international market overall is expected to decline by about 100,000 visitors this year,” Dixon said. But the number of visitors from Canada is expected to rise 1 per cent to 2 per cent over last year, he said. “That’s a real success story.”
That, along with the fact that not only are American businesses coming BACK to America, but more foreign companies are planning on setting up shop on United States soil, providing jobs, taxes and more.
So, maybe the “Trump Slump” should be called the “Trump Triumph”.
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Trump is a dangerous moron! Trump wants to make Trump great again! Anyone who believes he has any interest in maga hat wearing rednecks is totally deluded! The man is a criminal, racist, half wit! The world laughs at him! Anyone with half a brain is against him! Stop watching Fox News,wake up and smell the coffee! American idiots are totally fooled
You are an obvious swallower of the myth of “american exceptionalism”! The US can withdraw its “shield” from all of its friends, and go support the likes of Putin! I have the feeling the rest of us will do just fine if die hard Trumpist morons wish to back Trump in his new policy of “America alone” good luck with the MAGA thing!
How about the rest of the world teaches the idiot American trump voting red necks the lesson that American exceptionalism is a farce, you are not number one in anything apart from gun ownership, your health system is inhumane and expensive, and your potus is an idiot, sexist, racist, who is in Putin’s back pock!!!!!!!!!!!!!
America is fucking insane and inhumane, and damn expensive! You Americans are third world not going for single payer! It’s not bloody communism!
I just woke up one morning, and thought, you know, the Americans drive on the wrong side of the road, don’t drink enough tea, can’t make tea, eat too much, can’t elect a decent president, I’ll dedicate my life to showing them how to live!!
Trump has managed to upset most of the entire population of Europe! In general, he’s demonstrated he has about as much warmth and charm as an open wound! It amazes us that this man ever came to power, and remains there. Far from ” making America great again” he Has made it the laughing stock of the world!
The man is an incompetent Buffon, I shit you not! How has American politics got so partisan you don’t know shit from shinola?
As I have been telling Trump supporters for ages, Your potus is not worthy of respect. Nobody envies his smart brain or his big words. The world literally laughs at him, and the population for not getting rid of him NOW! You have a lot of rebuilding to do.
I suggest you get on with it.