{"id":118687,"date":"2025-05-21T02:55:07","date_gmt":"2025-05-21T02:55:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/118687\/"},"modified":"2025-05-21T02:55:07","modified_gmt":"2025-05-21T02:55:07","slug":"trump-tanks-eu-business-travel-to-america-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/118687\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump tanks EU business travel to America \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The lobby&#8217;s latest Economic Impact Research showed a 6.9 percent decline in international visitor spending, from $181 billion in 2024 to $168.7 billion this year, sounding the alarm for U.S. tourism.<\/p>\n<p>The document \u2014 first <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/05\/13\/travel\/united-states-international-visitors-decline.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a> by the New York Times \u2014 doesn\u2019t spell out which countries are seeing the largest declines in tourists to the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>By contrast, domestic visitor spending is expected to remain stable at about $1.5 trillion \u2014 a figure that shows the U.S. tourism industry is nearly 90 percent dependent on domestic travel.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe absolutely have seen a decline in popularity of foreign travelers coming to the U.S.,\u201d said Ellie Mertz, Airbnb CFO, during the homestay booking platform\u2019s first-quarter <a href=\"https:\/\/s26.q4cdn.com\/656283129\/files\/doc_financials\/2025\/q1\/Airbnb-Q1-25-Earnings-Call-Transcript.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">earnings call<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s less popular to come to the U.S. from a year ago, also relative to the beginning of the year,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<p>However, Mertz said, \u201cas a reminder, U.S. travel is predominantly domestic.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Online travel agency Booking.com also noted a slowdown in U.S. tourism.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLooking at our room night growth by region in the first quarter, Europe and Asia were up high single digits, rest of world was up low double digits, and the U.S. was up low single digits,\u201d the platform said in its <a href=\"https:\/\/s201.q4cdn.com\/865305287\/files\/doc_financials\/2025\/q1\/Q1-25-Prepared-Remarks-for-Website.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Q1 results<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The lobby&#8217;s latest Economic Impact Research showed a 6.9 percent decline in international visitor spending, from $181 billion&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":118688,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5311],"tags":[186,943,2437,2814,32,2915,36,1824,730,2122,2132,1115,7965,479,5006,461,15,49,978,659],"class_list":{"0":"post-118687","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"tag-australia","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-companies","11":"tag-data","12":"tag-donald-trump","13":"tag-exclusive","14":"tag-france","15":"tag-germany","16":"tag-india","17":"tag-japan","18":"tag-mexico","19":"tag-norway","20":"tag-platforms","21":"tag-tariffs","22":"tag-tourism","23":"tag-turkey","24":"tag-united-kingdom","25":"tag-united-states","26":"tag-us","27":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114543573263303174","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118687\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}