Trump Policies Causing Slump in US Travel
04-05-2017, 12:42 PM
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Trump Policies Causing Slump in US Travel
Trump slump: Drop in American tourism is costing US billions | The Independent
Trump's revised immigration policies are having a cooling effect on travel in the United States, even from non-affected countries. Will this lead to more serious issues within the industry, including an industry recession?
Has this changed your opinion of Trump's job so far?
Trump's revised immigration policies are having a cooling effect on travel in the United States, even from non-affected countries. Will this lead to more serious issues within the industry, including an industry recession?
Has this changed your opinion of Trump's job so far?
04-05-2017, 01:10 PM
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Originally Posted by flyprdu
Trump slump: Drop in American tourism is costing US billions | The Independent
Trump's revised immigration policies are having a cooling effect on travel in the United States, even from non-affected countries. Will this lead to more serious issues within the industry, including an industry recession?
Has this changed your opinion of Trump's job so far?
Trump's revised immigration policies are having a cooling effect on travel in the United States, even from non-affected countries. Will this lead to more serious issues within the industry, including an industry recession?
Has this changed your opinion of Trump's job so far?
04-05-2017, 03:46 PM
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Dunno. But lets all yell at each other about it until the mods close the thread.
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04-05-2017, 04:56 PM
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Originally Posted by hetman
dunno. But lets all yell at each other about it until the mods close the thread.
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04-05-2017, 05:08 PM
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"The ‘Trump slump’, as it has become known, is alive and well. Since President Trump took office, the numbers show, tourists just aren’t as keen on visiting the United States.
International travel to the US dropped 6.5 per cent in the eight days following the president’s proposed travel ban on January 27 when compared to the same period in 2016, according to travel data company ForwardKeys (Correlation equals causation? Do many people travel internationally to the US with less than 8 days notice?). Online searches for flights to America also dropped by 17 per cent the same week, said flight app Hopper. And the president of Dubai-based airline Emirates, Sir Tim Clark, confirmed in March that the travel ban, which sought to stop nationals from seven mainly Muslim countries from travelling to the US, immediately triggered a drop in bookings from Dubai by over a third.
All this has resulted in an estimated loss of $185 million in business travel bookings from January 28 to February 4, as calculated by the Global Business Travel Association. The drop-off in tourism is predicted to result in 4.3 million fewer visitors this year, which adds up to a staggering loss of $7.4 billion in revenue for the US.
The UK is no exception to this trend. Since Donald Trump took office, almost a third (29 per cent) of Britons said they have been put off holidaying in America and flight searches to the US have dropped overall by 13 per cent, according to a poll by flight comparison site Cheapflights.co.uk.
“A significant number of Brits have been spooked by what they see happening over the pond, and are beginning to vote with their clicks as they explore alternative options for travel in 2017,” said managing director of Cheapflights Andrew Shelton. “With UK travellers contributing nearly $5 billion a year to the US economy, tourism chiefs in the country should take note of what could be a substantial reduction in support for a major industry there.”
These findings were backed up at the end of February by online booking agent Kayak.co.uk, which found that UK flight searches to Miami – the second most popular US city for overseas visitors – had “fallen off a cliff”. Search was down 52 per cent compared to last year."
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Are online travel website polls and flight searches really a good indicator of a "travel slump"? At least Emirates has honest-to-goodness booking data.
This article seems pretty high on circumstantial data and pretty thin on actual evidence to back its claim.
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International travel to the US dropped 6.5 per cent in the eight days following the president’s proposed travel ban on January 27 when compared to the same period in 2016, according to travel data company ForwardKeys (Correlation equals causation? Do many people travel internationally to the US with less than 8 days notice?). Online searches for flights to America also dropped by 17 per cent the same week, said flight app Hopper. And the president of Dubai-based airline Emirates, Sir Tim Clark, confirmed in March that the travel ban, which sought to stop nationals from seven mainly Muslim countries from travelling to the US, immediately triggered a drop in bookings from Dubai by over a third.
All this has resulted in an estimated loss of $185 million in business travel bookings from January 28 to February 4, as calculated by the Global Business Travel Association. The drop-off in tourism is predicted to result in 4.3 million fewer visitors this year, which adds up to a staggering loss of $7.4 billion in revenue for the US.
The UK is no exception to this trend. Since Donald Trump took office, almost a third (29 per cent) of Britons said they have been put off holidaying in America and flight searches to the US have dropped overall by 13 per cent, according to a poll by flight comparison site Cheapflights.co.uk.
“A significant number of Brits have been spooked by what they see happening over the pond, and are beginning to vote with their clicks as they explore alternative options for travel in 2017,” said managing director of Cheapflights Andrew Shelton. “With UK travellers contributing nearly $5 billion a year to the US economy, tourism chiefs in the country should take note of what could be a substantial reduction in support for a major industry there.”
These findings were backed up at the end of February by online booking agent Kayak.co.uk, which found that UK flight searches to Miami – the second most popular US city for overseas visitors – had “fallen off a cliff”. Search was down 52 per cent compared to last year."
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Are online travel website polls and flight searches really a good indicator of a "travel slump"? At least Emirates has honest-to-goodness booking data.
This article seems pretty high on circumstantial data and pretty thin on actual evidence to back its claim.
/voted Johnson
04-05-2017, 05:45 PM
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The strong U.S. Dollar vs other currencies has a more pronounced effect on foreign travel into U.S. than the policies enacted in the past 12 weeks.
The U.S. is not the bargain tourist destination it has been for the past 9 years
The U.S. is not the bargain tourist destination it has been for the past 9 years
04-05-2017, 11:30 PM
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Originally Posted by flyprdu
Trump slump: Drop in American tourism is costing US billions | The Independent
Trump's revised immigration policies are having a cooling effect on travel in the United States, even from non-affected countries. Will this lead to more serious issues within the industry, including an industry recession?
Has this changed your opinion of Trump's job so far?
Trump's revised immigration policies are having a cooling effect on travel in the United States, even from non-affected countries. Will this lead to more serious issues within the industry, including an industry recession?
Has this changed your opinion of Trump's job so far?
04-06-2017, 12:01 AM
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My opinion of him has not changed at all. But then again I never had a positive opinion of him anyway!
04-06-2017, 02:49 AM
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Why travel to the set of reality TV when potential tourists can watch the drama from home.
04-06-2017, 06:39 AM
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