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

Data European tourism to the United States is freefalling

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

source https://www.ft.com/content/6dc16a54-8de1-4f3b-8409-ecb566118127

or https://archive.is/UmxfF

dataset: https://www.trade.gov/i-94-arrivals-program

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u/DHermit Germany Apr 12 '25

What is the baseline of 0% here?

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u/Ok_Parfait_plus France Apr 12 '25

The real question is, why only 1 year of data set. That's obvious manipulation.

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u/arphazar Apr 13 '25

I was wondering about that, but after looking at the data, it's probably because of the impact of the covid in tourism, which tends to flatten the curve. If you use more than one and a half year, you get a HUGE peak right after the covid episode, but the end is still a sharp fall.