Torpedoing Foreign Tourism To The US -- Potentially For Years To Come

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Suzanne Rowan Kelleher
Forbes Staff

President Trump’s tariffs, imperialistic rhetoric and viral headlines of foreigners with legal tourist visas and green cards being detained by U.S. immigration officials are “stacking up as significant hurdles for the U.S. travel industry” and “setting international travel back several years,” Adam Sacks, president of Tourism Economics, a nonpartisan Oxford Economics company tracking tourism statistics, told Forbes ...

Inbound travel from Canada and Mexico are particularly important, accounting for 36 million tourists in 2024 and representing roughly half of all foreign travel to the U.S.

Airline bookings from Canada to the U.S. are down 70% compared to the same period last year, OAG, a global air traffic data provider, announced Wednesday.

After the U.S. Travel Association (USTA) warned in early February that even a 10% reduction in Canadian inbound travel would translate to $2.1 billion in lost spending and would jeopardize 140,000 jobs in the hospitality sector, preliminary data from Statistics Canada for February showed a 23% drop in cross-border car travel from Canada to the U.S. ...

https://www.forbes.com/sites/suzannerowankelleher/2025/03/27/trump-torpedo-foreign-tourism/