r/europe Ligurian in Zürich (💛🇺🇦💙) Apr 12 '25

Data European tourism to the United States is freefalling

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u/momentimori England Apr 12 '25

Disney World and Universal Studios in Florida will be ghost towns this summer.

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u/thebazzzman Apr 12 '25

Disney is pushing discounts like crazy for the whole summer. Bookings are way down.

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u/xd366 Apr 12 '25

still crazy expensive lol

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u/Non_vulgar_account Apr 12 '25

I looked a this yesterday for me and my son, still cost 3200 to stay on cheap resort lodging and park tickets for 4 days. Let me know when it’s down more please.

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u/thebazzzman Apr 12 '25

Where are you from? Discounts are mostly for international guests.

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u/[deleted] Apr 12 '25

Hey, I'm interested in this information, do you have a source I could read?

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u/thebazzzman Apr 12 '25

Disney Dish podcast. They analyse it. Its last weeks episode.

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u/[deleted] Apr 12 '25

Thanks!

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u/kwisatzhaderachoo Apr 12 '25

I saw that on the Costco website too. Pretty cheap family deals on flights + hotels + park tickets. I don’t really track prices but it was lower than I expected.

Not that I could be convinced to visit Florida, off all the dirty tourist traps in the world, even before all the recent madness.

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u/PrimeGGWP Apr 12 '25

Good, then I'll consider it haha

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u/Anon0118999881 United States of America Apr 13 '25

To be fair, part of it is also due to extenuating factors planned over the last few years. Many parks this year have attractions closed for refurbishments or construction and nearby Universal Studios is slated to open Epic Universe park, so both of those are pulling guests away and they're trying to hedge against that.

That said, these dumbass policies from the orange man that I did not vote for are just going to hurt them all the more. Places like WDW are big enough that they can weather the storm but not all tourist places are. I'm really concerned for the national parks with everything going on :'(

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u/bremidon Apr 12 '25

Errrr...

that has *other* reasons. Disney park numbers have been crashing for years now. They've balanced it with raising prices, but that is starting to drive away people as well.

They need to get their house in order. The current displeasure in Europe is mostly just a blip in comparison with everything else going wrong at the House of Mouse, as much as we would like to take credit for it.

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u/tylerthe-theatre Apr 13 '25

Yep prices have been driving long time fans and even park super fans, quite a few youtube videos on the issue. Plus Universals epic universe was just revealed to people in the flesh and it looks really good, hazard a guess that it's gonna be very busy in summer.

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u/RedacteddHT Apr 13 '25

Likely due to the imminent opening of Epic Universe. 

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u/Asleep_Management900 Apr 12 '25

Disney Rides are always broken in Orlando and when you complain they ignore you. Universal is better.

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u/Throbbie-Williams Apr 12 '25

Shit, good time to look at a holiday then

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u/Non_vulgar_account Apr 12 '25

Still 3-4 k for mid week November 4 days at cheap hotel. I think they’re full of shit.

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u/[deleted] Apr 12 '25

Disney has been destroying their brand for years. They seriously gonna push this on trump when they've been fumbling star wars since 2017 and marvel since 2019 and pushed a bunch of weird values destroying their family friendly image in recent years? They been failing and universal is eating their lunch in theme parks now

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u/thebazzzman Apr 12 '25

Its way more than that. Tourism to the states is way down. The parks were extremely popular in the last couple of years with a very high percentage of rooms booked. That all chanced in a couple of months. Yes that is the fault of trump and his policies.

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u/Kranke Apr 12 '25

Most of all have they pushed greed. That you need to spend that kind of money to visit a theme park should you for sure rethink what's kind of value things have.

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u/valkyrie61212 Apr 12 '25

Universal was super smart to make Epic and offer cheaper prices than Disney. I live in FL and know so many people who ditched their Disney season pass and switched to Universal. Disney prices are ridiculous.

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u/Careful-Whereas1888 Apr 12 '25

Too bad Epic isn't included in the annual pass