{"id":239301,"date":"2025-07-05T05:31:13","date_gmt":"2025-07-05T05:31:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/239301\/"},"modified":"2025-07-05T05:31:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-05T05:31:13","slug":"us-is-the-only-country-facing-tourism-decline-as-trump-policies-to-cost-29-billion-in-visitor-revenue-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/239301\/","title":{"rendered":"US is the only country facing tourism decline as Trump policies to cost $29 billion in visitor revenue: study"},"content":{"rendered":"

Donald Trump\u2019s policies<\/a> risks alienating millions of international travelers and could cost the U.S. economy<\/a> billions of dollars due to a sharp drop in tourism<\/a>, a damning report says.<\/p>\n

Amid the president\u2019s immigration crackdown<\/a>, travel<\/a> bans and sweeping global tariffs<\/a>, the U.S. is expected to be the only one out of 184 countries to see foreign visitor spending fall in 2025, according to the World Travel and Tourism Council<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The study suggests that the U.S. economy is on track to lose $12.5 billion in international spending this year alone \u2013 but the actual shortfall might be much greater.<\/p>\n

Tourism Economics, a division of Oxford Economics, had originally forecast a nine percent increase in foreign travel earlier this year before revising its estimate to reflect \u201cpolarizing Trump Administration policies and rhetoric.\u201d<\/p>\n

Based on the research firm\u2019s original projections, the U.S. economy was expected to gain $16.3 billion in revenue, according to an analysis by Forbes. Instead, the total deficit<\/a> may be as high as $28.8 billion.<\/p>\n

\"The<\/p>\n

The U.S. is expected to lose tens of billions of dollars in tourist revenue in 2025, according to the WTTC study (Getty Images)<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is a wake-up call for the U.S. government,\u201d Julia Simpson, president and CEO of WTTC, said in a statement in May. \u201cWhile other nations are rolling out the welcome mat, the U.S. government is putting up the \u2018closed\u2019 sign.\u201d<\/p>\n

The projected decline is driven by an estimated 20 percent drop in Canadian visitors through 2025, who spent $20.5 billion and made up almost a quarter of foreign tourists<\/a> who came to the U.S. last year.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Mexico\u2019s tourism industry is expected to boom with WTTC projections for 2025 indicating a record $281 billion uptick to the country\u2019s GDP.<\/p>\n

The potential backward slide comes amid alarming reports of foreign tourists having their travel plans upended<\/a>, with some even detained by U.S. authorities<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It included Charlotte Pohl, 19, and Maria Lep\u00e8re, 18, from Rostock, Germany, who had their hopes of island-hopping Hawaii dashed and were denied entry into the U.S. despite allegedly holding the required Electronic System for Travel Authorization.<\/p>\n

\"Droves<\/p>\n

Droves of tourists may choose to vacation outside the U.S. amid Trump’s inflammatory rhetoric and clampdown on the border (AFP via Getty Images)<\/p>\n

Total foreign visitors were down 12 percent year-on-year in March, according to the National Travel and Tourism Office, a division of the U.S. Department of Commerce. \u00a0That drop marked one of the steepest declines on record outside of the Covid-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n

Western European visitors experienced a 17 percent drop-off, spearheaded by fewer British and German visitors \u2013 14 and 28 percent, respectively.<\/p>\n

Americans\u2019 appetite for foreign travel also appears to have been impacted.<\/p>\n

U.S. citizens appear more concerned about being detained or harassed by U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents when they re-enter the U.S.<\/p>\n

The Trump administration has repeatedly warned that agents have searched the electronic devices of U.S. citizens at the border.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll travelers crossing the United States border are subject to CBP inspection,\u201d the CBP\u2019s website reads. \u201cOn rare occasions, CBP officers may search a traveler\u2019s mobile phone, computer, camera, or other electronic devices during the inspection process.\u201d<\/p>\n

Last week, Los Angeles political consultant Rick Taylor was pulled aside by border agents, separated from his family and placed in a holding room with several Latino travelers for nearly an hour, according to the LA Times<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Donald Trump\u2019s policies risks alienating millions of international travelers and could cost the U.S. economy billions of dollars…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":239302,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3090],"tags":[51,32,1700,93095,49435,16,15,45658,22584],"class_list":{"0":"post-239301","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-donald-trump","10":"tag-economy","11":"tag-foreign-travel","12":"tag-international-travelers","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom","15":"tag-world-travel-and-tourism-council","16":"tag-wttc"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114798990959737266","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239301","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=239301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239301\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/239302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}