The Leopards Come for the Florida Tourist Industry
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While we can’t assume that people involved in the tourist industry voted for Trump at higher rates than the rest of the population, we can definition use the context of class and place to surmise that a whole lot of people involved in executive positions in the Florida tourist industry loved Donald Trump and were so happy to vote for him and now they are getting completely washed since most reasonable people have decided the U.S. is not a good place to travel these days.
Michelle Cowley, a London-based communications specialist, and her husband spent nearly two years planning a $16,000 vacation to Walt Disney World in Florida. Then their children, ages 7 and 11, heard about Renee Good and Alex Pretti being killed by ICE agents and didn’t want to go.
Comments by President Trump in January, including threats to annex Greenland and criticisms of British military contributions in Afghanistan, sealed the family’s decision.
“We have decided that it really is not the place we want to be at the moment,” Ms. Cowley said.
Last year, as tourism grew worldwide, the United States was the only major destination to see a decline in foreign visitors, recording a 6 percent drop, according to the World Travel and Tourism Council, an industry group. January saw a continued decline in inbound visitors, down 4.8 percent from January 2025.
Visitors from Canada, usually the second-largest source of U.S. tourism after Mexico, plunged by 28 percent in January compared to January 2024.
Other key markets like Germany and France also recorded significant declines, while Britain, the largest long-haul source market for U.S. tourism, saw a marginal growth of 0.5 percent compared to the previous year.
“When 11 million international visitors aren’t showing up, the result is billions of dollars in economic losses to the travel industry,” said Erik Hansen, a senior vice-president at the U.S. Travel Association, a trade group that promotes travel to and within the country.
Would you come to this shithole nation if you had a choice to go elsewhere? As for me, I am trying to spend as much time out of this horror show as possible.