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

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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.