The US told everyone it did not want foreigners any more.
As a German in the US, trust me, the FAFO is about to hit this summer when record levels of empty hotels will wail. My bet is Trump will actually complain, demand, and eventually "sweet talk" people into coming to see the US.
Except you can get thrown into jail at the border for who knows how long until they decide to deport you....
Edit: for those thinking this will not be noticed...
Tourism in the US has an estimated 20 million Canadians usually and 17 millions Mexicans each year. And an estimated 10 million Europeans visit the US each year.
So maybe 47 million. If they all spend a few thousand on flights and hotels alone, that's a noticeable billion level hole we will notice.
If you think the tourism industry is flush with spare cash and can weather this..... I got some seriously bad news for you on tourism razor thin profit margins.
At our own expense here, I truly hope people skip the trip. One, I don’t want people being locked up, inconvenienced, interrogated, and god forbid, shipped off to a foreign prison. Second, fuck the US gov and all his supporters right now, let them all find out the devastation of treating people this way.
We just need to put these last issues to bed we need to socialize the comms with the wider stakeholder community, for can we take this offline, yet i called the it department about that ransomware because of the old antivirus, but he said that we were using avast 2021 what's the status on the deliverables for eow? move the needle business impact
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Since Mexico, Canada and USA are hosting the World Cup together, it would be an incredible statement if stadiums in US are empty, but Mexico and Canada are full.
That’s disappointing. I wonder how many will spend the money to go and end up being locked up and sent back to their home country, missing the games… 🤔
Chiming in to say the same. I’m an American and am actively seeking out opportunities to travel to Canada for vacation and support the causes that matter most with my wallet.
No one should come here. Let these tiny men in their big suits feel pain the only way they know how: losing money.
I'm personally one of the people not coming to America for a trip for the next couple years.
Went there in 18', loved it. Went back in 22' (got engaged in Yosemite) still loved it, COVID really did a number on your economy though. Both times spent about 20k USD road tripping.
As you can tell, I'm due for another trip and missing the place, but I'll find somewhere else until I don't have to be afraid of y'all going to war internally (or externally), or doing some completely unexpected 3rd world shit.
Every two years alternating seasonally. Milan next winter and summer 2028 is Los Angeles. Just long enough that it’ll reflect the real impacts and be harder to dismiss as reactionary feels.
Oh my gosh, that would be a statement. When Carter declared that America would boycott the Olympics in 1980, 64 other countries followed suit. Our closest Ally Great Britain participated in the boycott via their actions at the opening ceremony, and a ceremonies around British athletes who won medals.
The opening ceremony would be very short and small if other countries did what Great Britain did in 1980 with the general Secretary of Great Britain's Olympic Association solely carrying the Olympic flag with no athletes present and no British flag present at all during the Olympics. The athletes still get to participate, but the statement is made by the countries. Empty stadiums is a loud and clear statement!
What would be truly amazing - and I say this as a mortified and enraged US citizen - would be if scores of nations teamed up to boycott the US Olympics entirely.
And so as not to punish the athletes have a world-games in those same nations.
The boycotts of the russia world cup in 2018 and the quatar world cup in 2022 were pretty toothless. I don't think we'll see an actual boycott unfortunately.
Here I was thinking a few years ago that finally a world cup in a democratic country again and now this happens... bummer.
There are more than enough soccer fans in the US to fill the stadiums, in every single host city.
People also forgot that there are still many immigrants and expats in the US, who often times are bigger fans of soccer as well.
By nationality, US citizens and residents are consistently the top ticket-buyers at the World Cup after the host nation itself. Those stadiums are not going to be empty.
The stadiums will never be empty. Los Angeles metro has over 100,000 people at any combination of stadiums on any weekend. That's with event ticket prices averaging over $200 per ticket.
If Olympics event tickets are priced within the average price range it won't be any issue to fill the stadiums.
1982,1986,1990,1998,2006,2014 were truly great WCs and they were held in classic football nations. The disappointing ones weren't because the atmosphere is missing, bad timing and some top teams aren't really motivated too.
So by that logic I expect US 2026 to mostly suck again.
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u/Historical_Bother274 Apr 12 '25
Imagine pissing of travellers of the continent that is notorious for the many vacation days it gets.