Tourists from countries badly hit by Trump tariffs are staying away from US

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: The Guardian

Mon 26 May 2025 19.01 EDT
Last modified on Tue 27 May 2025 00.12 EDT


Holidaymakers in countries hit the hardest by Donald Trump’s trade tariffs are taking the US off their list for trips abroad, according to online travel booking data. Findings from the hotel search site Trivago also suggest that UK and US travellers are increasingly choosing domestic holidays amid concerns over an uncertain economy.

The company has seen double-digit percentage declines in bookings to the US from travellers based in Japan, Canada and Mexico. The latter two countries were the first on Trump’s tariff hitlist when he announced tariffs of 25% on 1 February. Canadians in particular were incensed at Trump’s repeated suggestions that its northern neighbour would be better off annexed as the 51st state of the US.

According to Trivago’s findings, which were shared with PA Media, demand among Germans was also “down heavily”, with hotel bookings in the US showing a single-digit percentage decline. Germany is the largest economy in the EU, which Trump has repeatedly threatened with increased tariffs, most recently saying on Sunday he had “paused” a 50% tax he intended to introduce next month.

There has not been a significant change in the numbers of UK holidaymakers travelling to the US. The UK has so far faced some of the lightest tariffs globally and last month struck a “breakthrough” trade deal with the US. Businesses operating in its $2.6tn tourism industry are becoming increasingly concerned about a “Trump slump” due to the turmoil the president’s tariff war is causing on the global economy.

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/may/27/tourists-from-countries-badly-hit-by-trump-tariffs-are-staying-away-from-us

[travelingthrulife]

1. Good. Because money is the only thing these gop goons love.

[IronLionZion]

2. Our country is losing revenue in many ways

from tourists, international students, exports of American goods, and more. People around the world are avoiding America and American products/services.

[mathematic]

3. More journalistic malpractice from The Guardian, pointing to the non-seasonally adjusted March figures

The Guardian is lying to promote their political agenda. There is no other explanation. They quote the March numbers for US (non Can & Mex) arrivals as down 11% from last year. They link to an old article of theirs reporting that.

They do not report on the April numbers for US arrivals. Why? That data is available. Because the April numbers were up 8% from last year. Year to date numbers are down .2% from last year. That's point 2. Overseas visitors is unchanged from last year.

Might overseas tourism significantly decline due to political circumstances? Sure, seems plausible but the Guardian is reporting it as if it already has happened. It has not. They lie with the data to support their story. They do this often.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

5. Not so fast with your Allegation. The data you refer to do not include any from Canada and no Mexican land arrivals.

https://www.trade.gov//sites/default/files/2025-05/Preliminary_SummaryAnalysis_COR_April_2025.xlsx

Canada especially is not visiting as much.

Same problem for March, but the data there shows an 11.6% DROP from overseas, excluding Canada and Mexico:
https://www.trade.gov//sites/default/files/2025-04/Preliminary_SummaryAnalysis_COR_March_2025.xlsx

February final data shows Canada was down 11.7% that month compared to Feb 2024.
https://www.trade.gov//sites/default/files/2025-05/FINAL_SummaryAnalysis_COR_February_2025.xlsx

[mathematic]

7. I pointed out that it didn't include CAN/MX. The issue it that the very use of March only is fraudulent journalism.

April data is available. I'm supposed to believe the neither the journalist nor editor asked "Oh, what are the April numbers?" A globally read newspaper would be so incompetent?

No, they asked. They didn't like the answer. They lied about it.

You can see the results of the lie and why they lied in this among the few comments this post got. Apart from our comments, there are 4 others. Two are celebrate the loss of commerce, as punishment for these policies and the other two amplify a narrative that this story demonstrates a global disapproval of Trump's policies. The global preliminary data through April show unchanged visitors. The final data through Feb, which is the latest to include all of Canada and Mexico are also unchanged (or "single digit increases" if I want to use the language framing of the Guardian's article).

Why does it not matter that global (non Can or Mex) visitors are actually unchanged year to date? Shouldn't it, if the main reason people are interested in this is if it reinforces a narrative that the US is isolating itself and damaging its economy?

Why is this story being reported on at all without mentioning seasonal patterns in travel? The big decline in March travel was offset by the big increase in April travel, due to Easter.

We'll see how travel shakes out over the year. There are reasons to think it will decline (which are the usual ones) and also reason to think it can rise, due to being cheaper to travel here.

[MLWR]

4. After hearing the horror stories

of the would-be tourists who were detained at the border or turned away and sent back home for some minor infraction on their documents, resulting in their losing the money spent on plane tickets and cruises, hotels and resorts, if I were from another country, I wouldn't come here either.

[Paladin]

6. Glad to hear it.

Loss of money is one of the very few things to which trump responds.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

8. Everything Trump touches dies.