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-hh wrote:
On 8/1/25 22:02, Mitchell Holman wrote:
-hh <recscuba_google@huntzinger.com> wrote:
On 8/1/25 14:25, J Carlson wrote:
On 8/1/2025 11:16 AM, Mitchell Holman wrote:
J Carlson <notgenx32@yahoo.com> wrote:
[etc]
I wonder how much of the fall in tourism to Las Vegas and Miami
is due to foreigners staying home, and how much is due to
Americans feeling a pinch themselves?
Foreignors don't want to visit
Trump's America, even Americans don't
want to visit Trump's America.
I completely get that foreigners don't want, and shouldn't want,
to come here at present. It's not safe for them...
Been to Vegas .. quite honestly, just didn't appeal to me at all.
Looking to book a trip now to Europe, before the value of the USD
falls even further. It's helping that airfare prices have softened
up too.
I have heard stories about "We don't serve Americans" signs popping
in EU shops and restaurants.
Cannot say as I blame them.......
Such reports have been around for years; the web has examples, eg: ><https://www.quora.com/Have-you-ever-been-insulted-abroad-for-being-Ame >rican>
More recently, there have been some protests against excessive
tourism, notably in Barcelona, Spain:
<https://globalnews.ca/news/11242709/spain-tourism-protests-water-pisto
However, this isn't necessarily directed at Americans only, but in
general how their quality of life has eroded from being overrun with
tourism. Venice, Italy has had a similar story for years/decades.
For my own personal travels, I can't recall experiencing any
anti-Americanism during Trump45's term, which for EU included travel
to Greece, Iceland, Czech Republic (x2), Hungary, & Germany. Probably
the most 'political' thing was learning that a statue which the
Hungarian government erected of Ronald Reagan in Budapest had the US >Secretary of State present for the dedication...who was Hillary
Clinton(!).
Another factor here is that different political slants have different
travel preferences. Bluntly, MAGAs stay domestic (including
Caribbean), whereas sane people aren't afraid of the rest of the
world.
FWIW, I've also expect that MAGAs would play it safe with a "if its
Tuesday, it must be Belgium" big bus tour, not self-guided
independent.
-hh
We don't want tourists here because most come from countries where sex
with a 14 year-old is illegal so who wants them anyway. You can't
even marry a 14 year-old in some of those Hellish places. Trump and
the party would not approve.
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