In June, Olyanic Ivanich is looking forward to greeting some cousins from Sweden to the Denver House. Ivanich and four travelers planned to go to the hike to Colorado, and then visit Los -Andgeles and San Francisco.
But then President Donald TrumpbrokenPresident of Ukrainian Valodimir Zelensky at a February meeting at the White House. Four relatives of Ivanich immediately canceled the planned trip and decided to rest in Europe instead.
“The path (Trump) handed over to the Democratic President, who was clear for them in the war,” said Ivanich, who is the CEO of the American Laboratory Labal Labal.
The American tourism industry expected that 2025 would be another good year in terms of foreign travelers. The number of international visitors jumped in 2024, and some forecasts predicted the arrival from abroad this year, to reach a previous level.
But three months a year, international arrival is falling. AngrownTrump tariffsandrhetoricand are alarmed by reports on being touristsarrested at the borderSome citizens of other countries keep away from the US and choose a trip to another place.
The National Federal Government’s national government on Tuesday published previous figures indicating that the US visits from foreign cases decreased by 11.6% in March compared to the same month last year. The numbers do not include arrival from Canada, which is planned to report on tourism data at the end of this week or cross the land from Mexico. But air trips from Mexico decreased by 23%.
In January, 7.1 million visitors entered the US from abroad, 3.3% less than in the first three months of 2024.
Company Travel ForecastingThe economy of tourismThe recently presumably in the United States in the United States will be almost 9% more international arrival, last week revised its annual forecast to predict a 9.4% decline.
The tourism economy expects some steady decline will be from Canada where Trumprepeated proposalthat the country should become a 51st state andTariffs on close trading partnersAngered residents. According to US government data, Canada was the largest source of US visitors in 2024 with more than 20.2 million.
Travel Group Travel Group Canada, a travel booking site, said the US vacation orders decreased by 40% in March compared to the same month a year ago. Air Canada reduced the schedule of spring flights to Florida, Las Vegas and Arizona from the lack of demand.
Last month, the National Travel and Tourism Office gave Rosi’s forecast for international trips to the United States on the basis of 2024 travel, the office said that this year is expected that the arrival increased by 6.5% to 77.1 million in 2026.
But the tourist economy has stated that the impact of a less favorable view of the United States from abroad may be quite serious, that international visits do not exceed until 2029.
“The survey data indicate a significant mixture of cancellation and a mass drop in intention,” said Tourism President Adam Sax.
Jan Urkhart, Professor on Albert University in Edmantan, Canada, was supposed to go to Las Vegas for five days in June and see Coldplay in a concert. He canceled the trip to protest the “incredibly disdainful tone” of Trump to Canada, although it meant to lose a $ 500 deposit for a vacation package.
According to Urkhart, his eldest daughter has similarly planned a planned trip to Sedon, Arizona, while his brother -in -law decided not to go on a regular trip to Golf to Scotsdale, Arizona.
“None of us jumped with joy when we made these decisions, but it seemed one of the few ways we could signal as we treated the bullying, which was sent to Canada by your president,” Urkhart said.
For Pepa Kuevas and her husband, who live in Madrid, Trump’s elections in November were a turning point. The couple planned to spend a month skiing in Colorado on a winter vacation. Instead, they went to Japan.
“Trump’s victory left us, especially me, very shocked,” Kuevas said. “At the moment we have lost the desire to return. I don’t know what will happen in the future, but at the moment we’re still shocked, and it doesn’t look like it will be decided.”
According to government data published on Tuesday, international arrival from China has fallen by almost 1%. Trips in their spare time in places such as Disneyland, Hawaii and New York, sharply decreased and most likely will not take until Trump has left the post, said Wolfgang Georg Arlt, CEO of China’s Tourism Institute. He duplicates his “Trump that falls.”
This decline has financial consequences. Tourism economics expects US $ 9 billion to spend this year.
Mark Giana – President and CEO of the New World Travel company, a California company that works with foreign tour operators on recreation and planning. For example, it organizes hotels and car rental for a family that wants to take a tour of the US national parks.
Gian said the orders declined from 20% to 50%, depending on the market of original sources over the last eight to 10 weeks. He notesTake your Greenland controlself -governing territoryNATO Allele DenmarkareAntoganized citizens.
“The US is not perceived as a welcoming place,” Jang said.
BeyondPlatform for revenue management for lease owners, said Canadian short -term rental searches in the United States were plunged 44% after February 1, when Trump had first announced that it has since 25% tariff for Canada and Mexico goods. Florida, Texas and New York were some of the most violent markets.
American Ring Travel, a tour operator based in California, offers carbon-neutral bus excursions to the United States, often attracting environmental travelers from Europe, said Richard Groese, director of the contract company. But reservation from Germany has been bursting since January after Elon Musk threw support forA far -right political partyIn the federal election in this country, he said.
There are other questions that affect foreign visits. For many years, the United States has been a major place for Japanese tourists, but the data compiled by JTB Tourism Research & Consulting showed that South Korea headed the United States in January.
Weak yen-no Trump is the biggest factor that reduces the US attraction, said Takaaki Mitamura, a spokesman for a travel agent based in Tokyo, Veltra Corp. Travelers Choose areas where the currency effect is not as great as South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand and Australia, he said.
Haruka Atomi, a Tokyo resident, visits Los -Angeles at least once a year. Last year, she first brought her young children and conducted a lot of research to find available places for living. The exchange rate made some hotels twice or three times the price it paid in the past.
Atomiya, who went to college in Vermon, always loved the diversity and freedom in the US, she said she did not understand why the Americans chose Trump but did not plan to stop visiting unless she feels any physical danger.
“If America changes in a way that it is good, it’s also a reality, and I will most likely visit,” she said. “What will happen to America after Trump intrigues me.”
Originally this story was presented on Fortune.com
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Dee-Ann Durbin, The Associated Press
