“Europe Turns Its Back on America”: US Tourism Industry Hit Hard as Boycott Becomes Real and Profits Start to Collapse

“Europe Turns Its Back on America”: US Tourism Industry Hit Hard as Boycott Becomes Real and Profits Start to Collapse



by rezwenn

44 comments

  2. It’s more about not feeling safe rather than actively boycotting.

    There’re news everywhere of people been mistreated so why risk instead going to other place.

  3. Simply don’t arrest teenage tourists because they don’t have a hotel reservation for the last 2-3 days of a 3-week trip.

  4. Well, it could happen when you elect an anti-european President, who mocks and insults EU

  5. U.S. Embassies posting anti-immigration nonsense on their social media (“VISA IS NOT A BIRTHRIGHT!!! YOU WILL BE DEPORTED!!!” in a huge red font, and e.g. the Warsaw embassy going the extra mile by doing it in a severly broken Polish) probably helped here as well. Thanks, Li’l Marco and the Dept. of State staff!

  6. Nobody is boycotting because of politics. It’s just a matter of common sense and not wanting to spend the rest of your life in a Salvadorian gulag just because the border police officer doesn’t like you!

  7. What did they expect? Donny started a trade war, couch fokker bashing on the EU. Nothing right now is even remotly appealing someone from Europe to visit the US. As a fact, every country is advising against visiting.

  12. When I was young I wanted to visit, the situation in America since Obama finished his last term has removed any interest in going there.

    The situation after the last while here has made me warn every member of my family and friends to not go there at all costs.

    America has been on a long spiral downwards, but it seems like y’all just decided to jump down the stairwell instead of continuing the march down em.

  14. As a european i diverted my American holiday plans to go to Canada instead.

    Highly recommended 

  15. Visiting USA already involved getting through an immigration-control done by petty kings.

    And now it’s getting worse. I don’t understand why anyone would put themselves through that as part of a vacation at all.

    And that’s before we even come to the fact USA is threathening allies with war.

  17. Trump is a madman. His voters are worse. Stay safe, my friends across the pond. There are still plenty of us here fighting this monster, the GOP unleashed on the world. I hate him and the maga now. This it terrible. I have never known a good leader who divides people. He’s even turned Mexico and Canada against us. He’s bringing misery to all people everywhere. I have tried talking to the maga. To reason with them. To show them the truth and hard facts on the Dastardly things he has done through the years. I’ve been doing it for more than a decade now. It’s exhausting. The maga have fallen for the lies. The propaganda, the utter insanity of it all. I’ve seen old friends die due to his covid lies, I’ve seen others get close. He is a monster, and so are they. I have cut contact with any known maga and openly shun them at every opportunity. Many of us are fighting. Stay safe, my friends, and stay out of this shit-hole the GOP has created. Stay out of America. Try Canada or Mexico. They could use some love right now.
    ✌️

  18. We have family in Rhode Island and planned to make a trip in 2026.

    Not anymore. The prefascist administration is poisoning the minds of so many Americans (not the minds of my distant relatives fortunately).

    The Trump administrations hate of Europe must not be rewarded. It‘s on the American people to vote for change in the next elections or it will be too late. The USA is basically in november 1932.

  19. Misleading headline – the US turned its back on Europe….

  20. It’s not a political statement. It’s simply not worth putting myself through potential hell in case the border agent doesn’t like my gob, my attitude, my socials (which I had to submit) even though I have the visa

  22. Who wants to spend thousands of dialers going to a country that makes you feel unsafe?
    Enough countries in Europe I haven’t seen yet.

  23. With all the deportations, racism, and trouble with ICE at the airports you have to be crazy to go to the US right now.

  24. The mystique of the US has evaporated over the last 15 years. It used to be a big draw, but the bi polar politics of you’re either with or against what ever thing is being discussed and the idiotic things they get behind has turned us away.

    I was in NYC last year, and it’s getting back to the 80s in terms of the city’s attitude. It’s grimy, drugs/addicts are everywhere and mental health care has washed it hands of the most needy.

    It’s not going to change for the good for a long time

  26. Who would have thought that the constant threats of annexing and economically attacking allies, siding with Russia and pushing far right propaganda has a negative effect /s

  27. My whole family had a trip with forced layovers in either Britain, Canada or America. We did Canada and Britain, paying a bit more to avoid America.

    Best choice ever, kind people, lovely places, good food and no Americans in sight.

  28. I’m in no rush to go in “vacation” in a place where I could get shot or arrested for no reason

  29. It’s both, the fact they will go through my phone, my social stuff my mail….like Im not agreeing to that. Add the fact that I’m pretty vocally in disagreement with trump, maga and the gop as a whole well…I could literally be refused entry at the mild end of things and fucking disappeared for god knows how long at the worst?

    So yeah, I’m not going. And its not just my “tourist” money they ain’t getting, it’s whatever business I’m bringing with me cause that’s not gonna happen either.

  31. Canada is turning its back too. Many of us are either exploring other parts of the country or checking out places on Europe

    Who would have thought: electing an anti Europe, Imperialist president would involve pissing off everyone when they are targeted by a lunatic

  33. Are you crazy? They way US treat people at the border? Going through or private life in mobile phones? The possibility to be randomly jailed?

    Much better places to spend my holidays.

  34. Is it Europe turning their backs or is it America reaping what they sowed ? Gee I wonder why they wouldn’t want to come here?

  35. So America puts people at the border and airports in prisons without trial and then wonders, that people don’t want to come visit anymore?

  36. Why would anyone want to go on holiday to the US just to be surrounded by gloating MAGA fools, and risk being sent on a one way ticket to the CECOT prison in El Salvador?

  37. It’s not just about turning our back, you could do or say the wrong thing, or have your phone examined and then find yourself in a detention centre. I’ll go somewhere a little safer, like Vietnam or Cuba.

  38. Thank you. The #1 thing Europeans, Mexicans, Canadians, and anyone else can do to support Americans in their fight against republican fascism is to stop buying American products, stop visiting the United States, and stop thinking of us as your allies. As long as there are Republicans in power, America has no allies. Only oligarchy, autocracy, and greed.

  39. Thank you Europe. Keep up the good work. Unless you want to see tour inside of a prison camp I probably wouldn’t recommend risking a trip here. 

    They should boycott the World Cup and Olympics 

  40. Nobody would take the chance of being “accidentally” bagged & tagged & sent to the hellish prison in El Salvador — by people who literally add gang signs on knuckles in MS Paint, and call it evidence on live TV.

    Especially the Europeans.

  41. My (admittedly extreme) take on why they’re so obsessed to discourage tourism.

    Foreign eyes seeing what’s going to happen there are dangerous when they return home, as they still need to fuel the narrative wrt other countries public that everything is working as Trump promised, so that far right parties overseas can keep sabotaging EU countries from within without raising too many warning signals. A tourist with a phone is harder to control compared to a local reporter who can be sacked or worse for filming the wrong thing or commenting in a way the dictator doesn’t like.

  42. You think I want to go on vacation in a country that might deport me, when I am critical in social media about Trump?

  43. I mean, it’s not even a boycott. I genuinely fear for my safety.

  44. Why would I plan an expensive holiday in America when some power tripping gestapo border officer can ruin my whole trip or worse send me to a Gulag.

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