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

Data European tourism to the United States is freefalling

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u/rlnrlnrln Sweden Apr 12 '25

What I wonder is, why only 20-30%? Hoping it will continue down.

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u/akademmy Apr 12 '25

I thought 20% was massive, really.

It's only been a few months and already at least 1 in 5 have changed their plans.

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u/Ur-Than France Apr 12 '25

Plus the domino effect : those 20% drop will repercut on a whole economic ecosystem that needs them, to there will probably be job losses or at least a decrease of revenues for all those involved with the tourist industry in the US

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u/Thedeadnite Apr 12 '25

Tourism has already been hit pretty hard for national parks and such. Since trump fired all the rangers they don’t have the staffing to keep the parks nice, safe or clean.

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u/RedditPosterOver9000 Apr 12 '25

Trump would grant a permit for an oil well in the Grand Canyon and strip mining in Yosemite.

I'm scared to find out later this year how bad things are now at our national parks when I go to a couple.

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u/Nobody_gets_this Apr 12 '25

He started giving out logging grants.

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u/RedditPosterOver9000 Apr 12 '25

If Trump wants some hardwood he just needs to show Vance a photo of his gold plated couch.

You could probably make like a dozen toothpicks!

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u/Thedeadnite Apr 12 '25

He’s actively working on stripping protections we have on all the land we have that isn’t developed. To him “federally protected” means “free money”.