US Government: “Foreigners are not welcome here!”
Foreigners: stop coming here
US Government: surprised Pikachu
To be fair, Japan is doing pretty much the exact same thing, and tourism to Japan in 2026 dropped by only 2.6% so far compared to 2025, as per their own tourism statistics.
https://statistics.jnto.go.jp/en/graph/
Tourism in Nazi Germany was fine for the most part, too.
You have to remember that tourists are, generally speaking, richer people, since poor people just can’t afford to travel. And statistically speaking, as you grow richer, you care less about people, the world, anything really.
As we’ve clearly seen with the recent Fifa World Cup.
the exact same thing
Oh, I’m sorry, I must have missed the news where Japan will demand your devices’ and social media accounts’ passwords on entry, or that they have secret police prowling the streets looking to jail and/or deport you to a random country for pretty much no reason.
Don’t forget the concentration camps, militarized police and sundown towns…
As much as I’d love to, I don’t think I’ll forget. :(
Is Japan being hostile to foreigners now any more than usual, though?
Also Japan has culture what does America have to offer?
Yes. After all that is going down in Nazi America it was the price of fuel being too high that is the reason I have been hearing for Snow birds not going this year. Thanks Obama.
“We’re the only major country in the world losing visitation,” the head of the US Travel Association said. “It’s mind-boggling.”
Is it, tho? Is it really mind-boggling?
Has this head of US Travel Association perhaps been frozen in stasis for the past 24 months? I’m not sure how else they could perceive what’s happening as anything other than normal and expected.
Probably used GROK to compose that response.
America.gov “super intelligence” (which curiously still has an “AI”, not “SI”, content warning)
I typed in a racial epiphet into the chat bot and it spit out an application. I don’t know what for.
Probably Truth Social.
A lot of people still act oblivious to what’s happening in the Untied States. Sometimes I think I’m delusional
Untied States
Maybe a typo, but accurate regardless.
Not a typo, I’ve been deliberately spelling it that way since Trump has been back in power
It’s “Unites States,” now.
It’s Unites States. Trump signed it into law.
Well … they don’t seem terribly united of late.
Not even close, no.
Its baked deep into the culture, right from childhood. US exceptionalism is a hell of a drug. And its going to lead to the country’s collapse.
Small minds are easily boggled
It’s mind boggling these dumb idiots still haven’t figured it out. The stupidity is astounding.
How could Joe Biden do this to us, Pikachu?!
Isn’t that the lady who said women should stay in the kitchen?
Judging by the younger generations I’d be happy if anyone was in the kitchen none of you fuckers knows how to cook anymore.
Only 50% of 2019 levels. Surprised it’s even that high.
The World Cup is my guess
they still visit disney.
I don’t understand how anybody at all still voluntarily goes to the Untied States
plenty of fascist Australians going over by the 1000, Teslas are selling hand over fist.
Trump should have said he’d invade Australia and most of Australia would have said ok !
australia did produce the likes of murdoch and nick adams.
Family and friends compel many of us to visit.
Have they considered visiting you instead?
and contaminate themselves with socialism? no way!
They do that too but I like visiting. As much as the politics suck, the people are generally decent and it’s still a country full of a lot of unique, natural beauty.
Are they unaware of the situation?
I know someone who flies down about once a month to help his elderly older brother and sister. (He is himself a retired senior, they are even older.) I presume he counts as 12 visitors a year, but of course, he’s just one person with family obligations.
Trump’s solution: TARIFFS!
This is basically how Elon responded to advertisers not buying ads on X.
I thought he told them to “go fuck yourselves”.
I mean Trump is doing roughly the same just not with words.
So he treats them like minors?
Fair point.
As a Canadian, this really warms my heart, thank you!
Canada gooses takin’ Canada deuces.
Detaining a number of the visitors at the border certainly didn’t help.
Not just detained, but strip searching teenage girls.
That story resonated through Europe.
US to try to force commercial airliners to land in US territory irrespective of final destination
Forced tourists will be given 60 minute head-starts to collect their luggage from the carousel before ICE agents begin their pursuit.
Now that’s what I call an experience
Who would have thought that a GeStaPo randomly taking potential non-Americans off the street and and putting them in concentration camps could lead to tourists looking for safer destinations?
After all the hassle for PLAYERS AND OFFICIALS for the World Cup, nobody should be even mildly shocked about this
I am. I am shocked people are still going.
How is it mind-boggling? You elected fascist, felon, narcissist Dementia Don, and he’s fomented far-right assholes to his ranks. This has made America a cesspool, and it’s deserving of the scorn. And threatening sovereign states is making it worse.
At this point, it seems the point is to make the place malcontent, which adds to more of the far-right ranks, and it snowballs into needing intervention.
Tourists don’t care about all that. They care about 19 year old girls being detained and repeatedly strip searched and mothers being detained on accusations of voting in US elections.
Sir, a second Trump presidency has hit the US.
Partly self-inflicted??? PARTLY???
“We’re the only major country in the world losing visitation,” the head of the US Travel Association said. “It’s mind-boggling.”
I’m trying to imagine the mindset where it can possibly be mind-boggling. They drank the MAGA Kool Aid?
We’re all trying to find who could’ve done this…
Thanks Obama!
Good. The Untied States needs to feel consequences
You’re not missing out on much.
I was hoping the title would say, ‘Decline in tourism SLAMS US economy’.
How would a decline in tourism voice mild criticism of the US economy?
DESTROYS would be a tad on the nose
