Having a US visa is kind of a symbol of status. Also a lot of families that live near the border go there to shop for cheaper items, things like clothes or technology.
Those with laser visas (issued to those in the border cities like Tijuana) do this frequently to see friends or family, or just to go shopping.
Laser visa have restrictions on how far north one can go. It depends on the border city it’s issued in, ie the ones issued in Tijuana are limited to 25 miles from the border; Nogales is 75 miles which allows travel to Tucson and I think it’s for 72hrs/entry
(I might have some specific details off but that’s the jist of these special border region visas)
All Mexican citizens are issued B1/B2 visa/border crossing cards regardless of where they live or where they apply for a visa. The only way to get a visa on your passport is if you have an emergency and can’t wait for the card to be mailed to you (well, be mailed to the DHL location of your choosing).
You’ve never seen interstate 5 on a Friday night or Sunday afternoon.
Mexicans have been living in California since it was part of Mexico. There are strong ties between the two populations that go back generations. Mexicans come visit family on a Friday and go back home Sunday. The same is true in reverse. Mexican-Americans go visit family in Mexico on a Friday and come back Sunday afternoon and evening. This has been happening for decades.
Fun fact: Before the break up of the USSR, back when Russia gathered much of its intelligence via satellites, there’s a picture they took of interstate five. It was taken on an early Sunday evening when Mexican Americans are returning from visiting family in Mexico. As is typical the highway was filled with cars from the Mexican border all the way to Los Angeles. Bumper to bumper with cars. And since it was evening, this showed up on the satellite photo as a solid ribbon of red because of people using their breaks.
This showed up as a series of photos of the military industrial complex of Southern California at the time. During the Cold War, California was heavily dependent on military spending. The photos were being shown to a class of young military cadets. someone asked what is that solid red line? The instructor said it was street lighting. One of the students said it looks like cars. And the instructor said that’s impossible, there’s no way in the world there could be that many cars. This was back when there were very few cars in Russia.
I have been to Ukraine and Russia quite a few times before the war. While I was in Ukraine at a Christmas gathering a friend invited me to, an elderly gentleman’s eyes lit up when he heard that I was from Southern California. And he told me the story of the satellite photo. He said the Russians refused to believe Americans could own that many cars.
If you wanna get an iPhone or a Mac, it's cheaper to buy it in the US. If you wanna buy clothing, you get it at the outlets, which is cheaper to buy the same brand in Mexico. Both and more are only for status
People also live in the US that own second homes through their families in Mexico or people live near the border on the Mexican side because it’s way cheaper ñ and regularly cross for work.
Mexico is getting richer. That means more Mexicans that can afford to travel for leisure. The US has great national parks and plenty of other stuff you can’t really do in Mexico.
haha so true it has not stopped my mexican family from visiting this year at all! they honestly don’t care they just live their lives and if they have their visa to enter and travel they will use it!
US overtook Russia as our main source of remittances during the last few years and migration to US for work (mainly illegally) didn't stop with the election of Trump
I wish that they broke up the 10%-29% group. That's a big gap between each end. I would like to have a more accurate number for Canada, other than... 10%-29%.. That doesn't really tell me too much.
I feel like they should have broken up -1 to -9 even. A -1 percent drop is like an anomaly possibly. It means that it essentially stayed the same. -9 is showing that things were actually lower by a notable amount.
At least they don't ask for social media accounts xD
Funny how North Korea (DPRK) is now less strict than the US when it comes to checking incoming tourists xD
South is down. But might well be a good trade, since the current US regime probably has no idea which of the two Koreas has more people or more money to spend.
Also there wasn't that many people going to the US on their holidays from most of the world in large amounts, most of the European countries don't holiday in the US often if at all usually, well outside of places like NY or Florida.
So most of the traffic is frequent travellers or as you said business people. The effect is more just people are less likely to choose the US in future more than cancel their holidays.
Canada is different and that's a damning stat for the US as they are the biggest tourists in the US so that alone is worse than any of the European numbers etc.
I suspect the +1-9 countries are mostly just unchanged stat wise than actually rising tbh.
Yep, this likely makes up a good chunk of the non-business travel. I know multiple people who still went in the presented timeframe because they had clearly just planned on it and paid for it months in advance. spring/summer 2026 will be... interesting. Netherlands here and the prevalent sentiment is, do not touch.
Yeah, this shows most of Europe and South American visitors are up. The only real important drop here is Canada, but Mexico is 5x larger and increasing.
In 2024 Canada provided us with about 20 million tourists out of 77 million total. Mexico was about 17 million. The next nine nations combined were about 20 millon.
Don't kid yourself that we don't have a genuine problem because we're getting more Argentinians here.
I didn't realize how many Canadians went to Vegas before the tariffs, but other than that I haven't seen anywhere else in America that's been impacted particularly hard.
Which is honestly crazy, there's no way I'd come here if I wasn't a citizen and my entire family weren't here.
Vegas isn't even as dire as people are saying it is. I was just there recently. It's definitely a little less crowded, but those videos of it were super misleading.
We live in the misinformation age, always remember that.
Absolutely those two are by far the main source of international tourism. The drop in Canadian visitors is massive and sends a strong signal. Notice however that international visitors accounts for 10-15% of the total spending, the rest being domestic tourism. As usual, the news reports tend to be more catastrophic than reality.
The map only reflects data from January to September 2025. Most of those trips were probably already booked and paid for before all the shenanigans happened. It'll be interesting to compare 2026 numbers to 2024.
Visiting family. It's not hard to comprehend. That's the main reason Canada isn't lower either. All 3 countries share family ties that will drive some tourism.
100%. I am from a border town in Canada and half the people in my classes has American relatives, some with dual citizenship and would spend weekends in America with dad and with mom in Canada on school days.
If say 10% of German visits to the US in 2024 were for family and 50% of Canadian visits were, then a halving of sightseers would register as a 45% decrease in overall German tourism but only a 25% decrease in overall Canadian tourism. Assuming that no one cancels family visits.
Mexicans aren't offended by Trump like Canadians are because he doesn't want to annex them, and US travel is a status symbol for Mexicans. There's no real boycott America movement in Mexico.
I’ve refused to visit my family in the US while that POS and his cult are running the show. Thankfully, they understand and are coming to Canada to visit instead.
This is a percentage thing, not total numbers and the US isn't the top destination for the Brits and since all the reform lot love Trump, him being a dick isn't going to deter them.
I'd also hazard a guess a large amount of those trips are business related and that's still going on.
That increase could be solely down to how many times Nigel Farage and Lisa Truss flying over to talk shit about the current state of the U.K. (that they’re both directly responsible for causing)
Most of us are too busy painting roundabouts and shagging flags or poppies to follow the news . There's a large group of people that moan about cultural erasure due to "foreigners" but love the idea of a holibobs to Disney land
We in Latin America actually have an increase of USA people, man, it's not even the classic digital nomads or "expats", we are having people looking for permanent residency.
This is overnight trips only, the majority(at least historically) of border crossings between the US and Canada are for day trips(work, shopping, cross border trucking, etc).
Friends judge me when I mention US travel. I like cruises and the US is the best place to be. Cheap flights to Vegas are tempting. But I don't want to be a social outcast.
speaking as someone on the west coast that lives in a ski resort town...this sucks, so many of our international tourists are aussies, kiwis, Germans and Chinese. we're already feeling it this winter season.
my state didn't even vote for this administration and yet were feeling it hard.
I love the US. I've been there about 20 times, spending more than 4 years there in total. I have lots of friends there and used to defend America when people criticised it.
There is no fucking way I am going there under the current administration. Any foreigner who does is a fool.
Some of the red countries in Africa or Asia perhaps that could be the case. But in the case of red countries like Canada and Germany and orange countries like Australia and Scandinavian countries, it's absolutely due to an active purposeful avoidance of visiting the US.
I'd say the same with China and South Korea. Don't know why Japan went up, maybe its baseball related.
I do know in addition Canadian doing doing more vacationing in our own country, especially in the summer, we saw a major spike in European tourists, I guess mostly western Europe, so I think we drained a fair amount of European tourists from the US.
Canada had a banner year in tourism and the US mostly has their tourist industry just collapsed.
They arrested a few germans (and swiss and french and australians and brits and canadians and so on). Obviously not 30%, but enough to make a lot of europeans reconsider. Not just from a purely political/boycott point of view. But also whether or not it's safe for us to travel there.
Yeah, I feel like if I was a European I’d view visiting the US the same way I currently view visiting China as a US citizen.
Like there’s genuinely a lot of really cool shit to see but I’d be worried that I’d do something wrong by accident and end up getting in trouble/have difficulties leaving, and that’s enough to make me at least wary of traveling there.
As a Filipino, I feel the same way about migrating to the US bc although I'm not the target demographic in the news, it could happen to any foreigner on US soil. It would be nice if Spain allowed us to visit them for 2 weeks in a 180 day period, like Schengen, so we have more options for tourism. Right now we can visit South Korea, South America, and South East Asia almost no problem.
USA and Canada still want us to apply for tourist visas at the embassy in Manila. They can still stay no despite the amount of paperwork and financial income provided to them. Would be nice if more 1st world countries trust us for very short stays. I prolly would want to remain a PH citizen.
And you could drop Canadian tourists by even more, but if more Americans travel domestically, it more than makes up for them overall.
The US domestic tourism industry is huuuuge.
Domestic travel remains a key driver of the U.S. tourism industry. Americans take around 720 million domestic trips a year, compared with 85.2 million foreign arrivals. That means nearly 90% of all travel in the U.S. is domestic, making it the overwhelming driver of tourism demand nationwide. Read More
That's the key here, increasing GDP through domestic travel doesn't actually help the economy, you need intentional travel for money to enter your economy
I wouldn’t say it more than makes up for it, if you ask the tourist businesses that are struggling I’m sure they would like the extra $20 billion that Canadians used to contribute to the tourism economy.
All of Asia, including China, India, Middle East is a lot of people and a lot of very wealthy people. Not to mention the people that were visiting from African countries would have been wealthy also, all people are not dirt poor in these places. The dirt poor ones are not leaving.
In Canada, they (northern states) put advertisements on our national broadcasting telling us that they want us to comeback and we are welcome. So yeah it changes for those states in particular because their economies has a substantial part linked to Canadian tourism because it’s biggest one by proximity. But yeah Europe kind of suck for this though not gonna lie.
Yes, much of africa and asia. But not canada, australia, new zealand, south korea, china or western europe. That alone is the majority of international tourists to the US. So this is definetly hurting the US economy too.
Yeah and next are UK (slight growth), india (slight decline), germany (big decline).
I would have gone, in fact we were specifically planning a trip to florida after having absolutely loved our time in california a year ago. But we cancelled that ofc and i wouldnt even go if i won a free flight and hotel stay nowadays.
There are multiple factors that go into this, including disposable income. Cost of living has increased almost everywhere, resulting in proportionally less disposable income and less ability to travel.
That said, bear in mind that there is no federal sales tax. So when you travel to the United States, you are putting money into the state's economy, not the federal government. Blue states did not contribute to putting the current occupant in office. A lot of businesses in places like New York and LA are owned by people of color. They're always the ones who get hammered hardest in economic downturns, and a drop in tourism adds insult to injury.
But I do understand if people are nervous about ICE/immigration stuff. They're chaotic and unpredictable.
The thing this map doesn't cover is visa rejections. Alot of the counties marked in negatives also have likely had their visa rejection rates skyrocket leading to less travelers.
Aussie here! Whilst ever Mango Mussolini is in charge, I will never return to the US. I know it's not everyone who follows him, and Americans are some of the nicest people I've ever met, as a gay man, I will never feel safe again in the US.
It would be interesting to overlay this data with change in US visa denials. Then we can meaningfully tell if the country is turning their back on US or if US is not letting them in.
Most of the wealthy countries (Canada, Germany, South Korea, France, Australia, etc.) don’t require visas for travel to the US so for those countries it would be driven by people deciding against US travel.
Altho to be fair, tourists from rich western countries are still getting arbitrarily arrested on arrival and deported.
By the dozens. Over ridiculous reasons such as "you brought a laptop or didnt book hotelsfor your full stay, that implies you wanted to work remotely from the US" or "you have too many clothes , that implies you are going to overstay your visa".
These news have also been heard loud and clear by many people here. I am very proud to see switzerland seemingly the darkest shade of red even.
There’s definitely good reasons why people are deciding not to travel to the US. As an American, I don’t think anyone should visit now if they can avoid it—stuff like the draconian social media history policy could get normalized unless US tourism takes a major hit.
Exactly. For the same reason i am boycotting all US products i can now. Except social media is hard to replace, so i am working with ad blockers where possible (mostly for youtube).
America needs to feel some consequences in time to reelect someone else, while that is hopefully still possible without too much bloodshed. Wish you best of luck, if you are part of the resistance!
Not to mention Canadians also don’t need an ESTA. I live less than 30 minutes from the border, I can show up at the port of entry anytime I want with my passport to request entry without any prior arrangements.
The US is not worth it as a travel destination. It’s extremely expensive and the tourism infrastructure is atrocious. Bad airports, terrible public transport, awful traffic, vicious immigration staff.
Well i'm not giving strangers access to my phone, so...
And it's so utterly stupid, anyway
You think that a terrorist, wanting to blow something up, would be trying to enter USA through the border with a phone with data like "I wanna put a bomb under some USA monument" ??
Ask any EOD army vet about how they would test TSA with det cord and blasting caps. The failure rate was astonishing
Anecdotally, my most recent flight was last week .. I was wearing a fucking tank top. You know, with no sleeves. The body scanner flagged that I had something in my armpit. That you could see because I was wearing a sleeveless tank top. That had no sleeves.
Bro still patted down my armpit. You could literally see my nipple if I pulled my shirt forward.
This map could be made every year and Mexico would still be green
Exponential growth in Mexican visitors? How does that work?
Having a US visa is kind of a symbol of status. Also a lot of families that live near the border go there to shop for cheaper items, things like clothes or technology.
It tracks overnight stays only
I know, people from cities like Monterrey or Saltillo stay there so they dont have to go back at night with the risk of being robbed on the highway
Like from the border to Monterrey there are professional convoys to get you safely from the border back to the city.
Leave on stay Saturday, return on Sunday.
Those with laser visas (issued to those in the border cities like Tijuana) do this frequently to see friends or family, or just to go shopping.
Laser visa have restrictions on how far north one can go. It depends on the border city it’s issued in, ie the ones issued in Tijuana are limited to 25 miles from the border; Nogales is 75 miles which allows travel to Tucson and I think it’s for 72hrs/entry
(I might have some specific details off but that’s the jist of these special border region visas)
All Mexican citizens are issued B1/B2 visa/border crossing cards regardless of where they live or where they apply for a visa. The only way to get a visa on your passport is if you have an emergency and can’t wait for the card to be mailed to you (well, be mailed to the DHL location of your choosing).
You’ve never seen interstate 5 on a Friday night or Sunday afternoon.
Mexicans have been living in California since it was part of Mexico. There are strong ties between the two populations that go back generations. Mexicans come visit family on a Friday and go back home Sunday. The same is true in reverse. Mexican-Americans go visit family in Mexico on a Friday and come back Sunday afternoon and evening. This has been happening for decades.
Fun fact: Before the break up of the USSR, back when Russia gathered much of its intelligence via satellites, there’s a picture they took of interstate five. It was taken on an early Sunday evening when Mexican Americans are returning from visiting family in Mexico. As is typical the highway was filled with cars from the Mexican border all the way to Los Angeles. Bumper to bumper with cars. And since it was evening, this showed up on the satellite photo as a solid ribbon of red because of people using their breaks.
This showed up as a series of photos of the military industrial complex of Southern California at the time. During the Cold War, California was heavily dependent on military spending. The photos were being shown to a class of young military cadets. someone asked what is that solid red line? The instructor said it was street lighting. One of the students said it looks like cars. And the instructor said that’s impossible, there’s no way in the world there could be that many cars. This was back when there were very few cars in Russia.
I have been to Ukraine and Russia quite a few times before the war. While I was in Ukraine at a Christmas gathering a friend invited me to, an elderly gentleman’s eyes lit up when he heard that I was from Southern California. And he told me the story of the satellite photo. He said the Russians refused to believe Americans could own that many cars.
you are allowed to import more stuff duty free after 24 hour stay
Cheaper in Southern California than Mexico? wtaf
If you wanna get an iPhone or a Mac, it's cheaper to buy it in the US. If you wanna buy clothing, you get it at the outlets, which is cheaper to buy the same brand in Mexico. Both and more are only for status
People also live in the US that own second homes through their families in Mexico or people live near the border on the Mexican side because it’s way cheaper ñ and regularly cross for work.
I swear people here don’t understand how percentages work….
You lost the audience at “exponential growth”. Hence why none of the replies address your point. 😂
I know quite a few people in financial type jobs who have no idea how an exponential functio works. Like none. It's quite worrying.
No no they’re onto something
Mexico is getting richer. That means more Mexicans that can afford to travel for leisure. The US has great national parks and plenty of other stuff you can’t really do in Mexico.
mexico's economic growth tanked this year
haha so true it has not stopped my mexican family from visiting this year at all! they honestly don’t care they just live their lives and if they have their visa to enter and travel they will use it!
I thought the point of electing the orange man is to keep Mexicans out of the US?
it improves for everyone besides canada which makes sense and struggling countries. argentina has had more money for tourism and chile has had less.
Welcome… Mongolians?
I'm imagining them all going to the Great Plains region and feel at home
[urge to conquer intensifies]
Do they have horses and battleaxes over there?
And Georgians
US overtook Russia as our main source of remittances during the last few years and migration to US for work (mainly illegally) didn't stop with the election of Trump
I think it's because Georgians want to see the state Georgia /j
Nah they are all in Brooklyn lol
I live in eastern georgia and i swear every person I meet has a son or daughter in America
They like that you’ve got a Georgia already
Wait, they were already in the US???
And also north Koreans, for some reason.
United started a flight there
That's a nice wall you have there.
They heard about the new shity wok opening across town.
Canada just hit 40% down for YoY this month, so it’s getting even worse.
Most of the negative states are high wealth or high volume visitors - Canada, France, Australia, China.
How many rich Mongols are there visiting for every Canadian not visiting?
O CANADA
Chasing those sweet Mongolian tourist dollars. This will help the economy.
No you come to shitty wok!
We are officially changing Beijing Beef to Mongolian Beef in Panda Express
Mongolian livestock being carried by passengers are killing american beef prices.
When I worked at a hotel a Mongolian helped save a Chinese who almost drowned in a swimming pool (both working on J1 visa)
Start of a love story
"They can build a great wall around their countries, but nothing can build a wall around their hearts"
😌
It should somewhat offset the massive lost revenue from Turkmenistan and Chad
I wish that they broke up the 10%-29% group. That's a big gap between each end. I would like to have a more accurate number for Canada, other than... 10%-29%.. That doesn't really tell me too much.
I feel like they should have broken up -1 to -9 even. A -1 percent drop is like an anomaly possibly. It means that it essentially stayed the same. -9 is showing that things were actually lower by a notable amount.
Article came out today stating it’s now at 40% for YoY. It’s only gonna go higher.
if this rate continues it will be 80% next year and there will be no more Canadians coming to the US by mid 2027.
North korean tourism is rising how nice
11 North Koreans visited last year, up from 10 the previous year.
How? For the UN assembly?
At least they don't ask for social media accounts xD Funny how North Korea (DPRK) is now less strict than the US when it comes to checking incoming tourists xD
Interesting times we're living in
South is down. But might well be a good trade, since the current US regime probably has no idea which of the two Koreas has more people or more money to spend.
Yeah, North Korea and the US regularly vote together at the UN these days so bros in arms with the Russians!
Thought it’d be worse tbh
Business travel continues regardless of people’s opinions of a place and forms a substantial amount of total travel.
Also there wasn't that many people going to the US on their holidays from most of the world in large amounts, most of the European countries don't holiday in the US often if at all usually, well outside of places like NY or Florida.
So most of the traffic is frequent travellers or as you said business people. The effect is more just people are less likely to choose the US in future more than cancel their holidays.
Canada is different and that's a damning stat for the US as they are the biggest tourists in the US so that alone is worse than any of the European numbers etc.
I suspect the +1-9 countries are mostly just unchanged stat wise than actually rising tbh.
Tbh I do hear from colleagues that they’re more hesitant to go to the us for business too…
Business travel also reduces. My wife refuses to go to the head office as long as there is an openly racist national administration in the USA.
Most employees don’t get that kind of choice. They get sent where they get told to go. Where their customers are. Etc.
That is correct and doesn't negate what I said that, business travel also goes down.
People already had their trips planned. Will be more interesting next year.
Yep, this likely makes up a good chunk of the non-business travel. I know multiple people who still went in the presented timeframe because they had clearly just planned on it and paid for it months in advance. spring/summer 2026 will be... interesting. Netherlands here and the prevalent sentiment is, do not touch.
Yeah, this shows most of Europe and South American visitors are up. The only real important drop here is Canada, but Mexico is 5x larger and increasing.
Large parts of Europe are down, especially in the most populated countries (Germany, France)
In 2024 Canada provided us with about 20 million tourists out of 77 million total. Mexico was about 17 million. The next nine nations combined were about 20 millon.
Don't kid yourself that we don't have a genuine problem because we're getting more Argentinians here.
I didn't realize how many Canadians went to Vegas before the tariffs, but other than that I haven't seen anywhere else in America that's been impacted particularly hard.
Which is honestly crazy, there's no way I'd come here if I wasn't a citizen and my entire family weren't here.
Vegas isn't even as dire as people are saying it is. I was just there recently. It's definitely a little less crowded, but those videos of it were super misleading.
We live in the misinformation age, always remember that.
Reddit is not a good indication on reality. Pretty much everything you see on the main subs are wrong and you should apply the opposite thought
Wrong. These are relative numbers.
The only two countries that really matter for us international tourism are Canada and Mexico.
The US losing 10 - 30% of Canadian tourism and their purchasing power cannot be offset by all the positive countries summed together.
https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/1m3aqa3/number_of_international_tourists_in_the_usa_by/
Hey now, don’t let reality get in the way of a good talking point.
Absolutely those two are by far the main source of international tourism. The drop in Canadian visitors is massive and sends a strong signal. Notice however that international visitors accounts for 10-15% of the total spending, the rest being domestic tourism. As usual, the news reports tend to be more catastrophic than reality.
I mean, this map indicates a massive drop in tourists from by far the largest source of tourists to the United States. But sure.
Tf kind of comment is this
The map only reflects data from January to September 2025. Most of those trips were probably already booked and paid for before all the shenanigans happened. It'll be interesting to compare 2026 numbers to 2024.
And raw numbers as well as percentages. 3 more north Koreans might be a 30% increase.
World Cup attendance is going to be interesting.
The Brazilian numbers is probably explained by the Club World Cup held in the US this year.
mexico dark green lol
Visiting family. It's not hard to comprehend. That's the main reason Canada isn't lower either. All 3 countries share family ties that will drive some tourism.
Canada is 10-30% lower...
Right. It would likely be 80% lower if it weren't for Canadians visiting family.
100%. I am from a border town in Canada and half the people in my classes has American relatives, some with dual citizenship and would spend weekends in America with dad and with mom in Canada on school days.
And business. I go there 7-8 times per year for that.
this is percent change, so "they have to vacation here because they have family" doesnt explain it
It does though.
If say 10% of German visits to the US in 2024 were for family and 50% of Canadian visits were, then a halving of sightseers would register as a 45% decrease in overall German tourism but only a 25% decrease in overall Canadian tourism. Assuming that no one cancels family visits.
Still doesn’t explain why there are more visits from Mexico than in the last year
Mexicans aren't offended by Trump like Canadians are because he doesn't want to annex them, and US travel is a status symbol for Mexicans. There's no real boycott America movement in Mexico.
Family that would go to MX don't this year due to risk at the border so their family comes over instead.
Did you not read the map? Canadian numbers are plummeting.
I’ve refused to visit my family in the US while that POS and his cult are running the show. Thankfully, they understand and are coming to Canada to visit instead.
I applaud yours and your family's decision on that. You've got a great country and hospitality. I'm planning another trip up north this summer.
Canada is clearly reduced???
Canada is seriously pissed off, it would be much much darker red if it was not the only neighbour.
I wonder why Russia has increased its visits to the U.S.?!
I assume visits were extremely low in 2024 due to the war, so even a small increase in 2025 would lead to a measurable percentage points increase
Wdym? I'm Russian, and Russia has always been friends with USA, I saw it on TV
Daddy Vladdy make war
Make Russia Great Again innit.
Ok, I’m a little shocked at North Korea…
To be fair it's measured by percentages not absolute numbers. So if 10 North Koreans visited last year and 11 this year they get their 10% increase.
Swapping Iran for North Korea it seems.
What's up with the Brits? Can't they find somewhere else to go?
Gotta learn a new language beyond dos cervezas por favor if we have to find somewhere else to go.
Due birre, per favore
This is a percentage thing, not total numbers and the US isn't the top destination for the Brits and since all the reform lot love Trump, him being a dick isn't going to deter them.
I'd also hazard a guess a large amount of those trips are business related and that's still going on.
That increase could be solely down to how many times Nigel Farage and Lisa Truss flying over to talk shit about the current state of the U.K. (that they’re both directly responsible for causing)
Wouldn't have expected anything else thh
Most of us are too busy painting roundabouts and shagging flags or poppies to follow the news . There's a large group of people that moan about cultural erasure due to "foreigners" but love the idea of a holibobs to Disney land
Yes because mass immigration is the same as tourism….
yep it's tragic, disappointed in us there
Well that's the natural disposition of British people
Doesn’t seem that bad honestly
About half of US tourism comes from Canada and Mexico, and Canada has the larger share of it. So, grain of salt.
We in Latin America actually have an increase of USA people, man, it's not even the classic digital nomads or "expats", we are having people looking for permanent residency.
USA people is moving to Uruguay
Not a bad choice.
Pretty sure Canada should be burgundy (-30%+)
What's beyond burgundy? We can do it!
Trick question! France abolished Burgundy by merging it with other regions!
I find the stark difference between Canada and Mexico fascinating.
I am an American living in Europe, and I am not going back to America for 3 more years.
Canada's travel drop to the United States is higher than 30%
This is overnight trips only, the majority(at least historically) of border crossings between the US and Canada are for day trips(work, shopping, cross border trucking, etc).
That's the crux of it, the largest group of Canadians to dial back travel to the US is snowbirds going to Arizona or Florida.
Whereas I still see plenty of Canadians where I live (Seattle area) coming for day trips or work.
I saw a headline today that said 40%, although that might have been only air travel.
Then it's probably similar for ground travel.
Friends judge me when I mention US travel. I like cruises and the US is the best place to be. Cheap flights to Vegas are tempting. But I don't want to be a social outcast.
Elbows stay up.
Still much too much
No surprise, the US brand has taken a hit internationally
speaking as someone on the west coast that lives in a ski resort town...this sucks, so many of our international tourists are aussies, kiwis, Germans and Chinese. we're already feeling it this winter season.
my state didn't even vote for this administration and yet were feeling it hard.
I love the US. I've been there about 20 times, spending more than 4 years there in total. I have lots of friends there and used to defend America when people criticised it.
There is no fucking way I am going there under the current administration. Any foreigner who does is a fool.
This could mean that the US is not approving as much visas as before rather than disinterest in visiting the US
Some of the red countries in Africa or Asia perhaps that could be the case. But in the case of red countries like Canada and Germany and orange countries like Australia and Scandinavian countries, it's absolutely due to an active purposeful avoidance of visiting the US.
I'd say the same with China and South Korea. Don't know why Japan went up, maybe its baseball related.
I do know in addition Canadian doing doing more vacationing in our own country, especially in the summer, we saw a major spike in European tourists, I guess mostly western Europe, so I think we drained a fair amount of European tourists from the US.
Canada had a banner year in tourism and the US mostly has their tourist industry just collapsed.
For many countries you don't need a VISA to enter the US unless you stay longer than 3 months
There are only less than 50 (out of the 200+ countries) countries that are privileged to have their visas waived
https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/us-visas/tourism-visit/visa-waiver-program.html
Those are the countries that spend most of the money.
It's both.
Well they are turning down a lot of B1/B2 visas from India
Something tells me they arent turning down 30% of German visa applications...
They arrested a few germans (and swiss and french and australians and brits and canadians and so on). Obviously not 30%, but enough to make a lot of europeans reconsider. Not just from a purely political/boycott point of view. But also whether or not it's safe for us to travel there.
Yeah, I feel like if I was a European I’d view visiting the US the same way I currently view visiting China as a US citizen.
Like there’s genuinely a lot of really cool shit to see but I’d be worried that I’d do something wrong by accident and end up getting in trouble/have difficulties leaving, and that’s enough to make me at least wary of traveling there.
As a Filipino, I feel the same way about migrating to the US bc although I'm not the target demographic in the news, it could happen to any foreigner on US soil. It would be nice if Spain allowed us to visit them for 2 weeks in a 180 day period, like Schengen, so we have more options for tourism. Right now we can visit South Korea, South America, and South East Asia almost no problem.
USA and Canada still want us to apply for tourist visas at the embassy in Manila. They can still stay no despite the amount of paperwork and financial income provided to them. Would be nice if more 1st world countries trust us for very short stays. I prolly would want to remain a PH citizen.
European here. I feel actually way more comfortable with visiting China than the US right now.
But American propaganda says otherwise.
Canada down Mexico up just like our omniscient god emperor wanted <3
Im mexican and AFAIK, the people I knew to travel for pleasure to the US are no longer doing it. Me included.
Same.
Keep in mind this was before the most recent changes to entry requirements will have been enacted.
Expect all of these numbers to crater
Those changes have not been implemented, it’s only a proposal. There’s still a 60-day comment period too before implementation.
So nowhere, outside of Canada, of note then? Lmao
What will they DO without those African tourist dollars
What about Germany?
....sure. of course, Canadians make up 1 in 4 of the US international tourists, so. Outside of Canada is doing a lot of work there.
And you could drop Canadian tourists by even more, but if more Americans travel domestically, it more than makes up for them overall.
The US domestic tourism industry is huuuuge.
Meaning no money entering the country.
That's the key here, increasing GDP through domestic travel doesn't actually help the economy, you need intentional travel for money to enter your economy
I wouldn’t say it more than makes up for it, if you ask the tourist businesses that are struggling I’m sure they would like the extra $20 billion that Canadians used to contribute to the tourism economy.
All of Asia, including China, India, Middle East is a lot of people and a lot of very wealthy people. Not to mention the people that were visiting from African countries would have been wealthy also, all people are not dirt poor in these places. The dirt poor ones are not leaving.
I find UK net increase figures hard to believe
More Russians.
Yet we hear very little of the impact on the US tourist / hospitality industry?... It must be devastated?
In Canada, they (northern states) put advertisements on our national broadcasting telling us that they want us to comeback and we are welcome. So yeah it changes for those states in particular because their economies has a substantial part linked to Canadian tourism because it’s biggest one by proximity. But yeah Europe kind of suck for this though not gonna lie.
Vegas has repeatedly said its being devastated by the lack of tourists but that seems to be a particular case
Aside from them, the national parks had been taking hits but that was due to lack of employees, not lack of visitors
NYC is doing just fine. There are European tourists everywhere you turn.
Traveling overseas has gone down across the board, not just the US. I’d love to see an apples to apples comparison.
Most of the red was already very very low. All this is really doing is hurting and separating friends, family, and loved ones.
Yes, much of africa and asia. But not canada, australia, new zealand, south korea, china or western europe. That alone is the majority of international tourists to the US. So this is definetly hurting the US economy too.
The second most visiting country after Canada is Mexico. Don't underestimate their shopping potential
Yeah and next are UK (slight growth), india (slight decline), germany (big decline).
I would have gone, in fact we were specifically planning a trip to florida after having absolutely loved our time in california a year ago. But we cancelled that ofc and i wouldnt even go if i won a free flight and hotel stay nowadays.
There are multiple factors that go into this, including disposable income. Cost of living has increased almost everywhere, resulting in proportionally less disposable income and less ability to travel.
That said, bear in mind that there is no federal sales tax. So when you travel to the United States, you are putting money into the state's economy, not the federal government. Blue states did not contribute to putting the current occupant in office. A lot of businesses in places like New York and LA are owned by people of color. They're always the ones who get hammered hardest in economic downturns, and a drop in tourism adds insult to injury.
But I do understand if people are nervous about ICE/immigration stuff. They're chaotic and unpredictable.
oh gee I wonder why visits from Venezuela have gone down 10-29% what could possibly be the cause
…The Canary Islands are marked yellow but mainland spain is green?
Are you implying they are a different country or that they belong to Portugal, mate?
To be fair the U.S. rejects so many tourist visas. I know the rejection rate for Chinese is sky high right now. We could use some of that money tbh
The thing this map doesn't cover is visa rejections. Alot of the counties marked in negatives also have likely had their visa rejection rates skyrocket leading to less travelers.
Aussie here! Whilst ever Mango Mussolini is in charge, I will never return to the US. I know it's not everyone who follows him, and Americans are some of the nicest people I've ever met, as a gay man, I will never feel safe again in the US.
So European countries are traveling more to US!
Just don't look at Central, Western, or Northern Europe.
We didn't turn our backs on America, they turned their backs on us gtfo sincerely Canada
C'mon Canada. We can go dark red
It would be interesting to overlay this data with change in US visa denials. Then we can meaningfully tell if the country is turning their back on US or if US is not letting them in.
Most of the wealthy countries (Canada, Germany, South Korea, France, Australia, etc.) don’t require visas for travel to the US so for those countries it would be driven by people deciding against US travel.
Altho to be fair, tourists from rich western countries are still getting arbitrarily arrested on arrival and deported.
By the dozens. Over ridiculous reasons such as "you brought a laptop or didnt book hotelsfor your full stay, that implies you wanted to work remotely from the US" or "you have too many clothes , that implies you are going to overstay your visa".
These news have also been heard loud and clear by many people here. I am very proud to see switzerland seemingly the darkest shade of red even.
There’s definitely good reasons why people are deciding not to travel to the US. As an American, I don’t think anyone should visit now if they can avoid it—stuff like the draconian social media history policy could get normalized unless US tourism takes a major hit.
Exactly. For the same reason i am boycotting all US products i can now. Except social media is hard to replace, so i am working with ad blockers where possible (mostly for youtube).
America needs to feel some consequences in time to reelect someone else, while that is hopefully still possible without too much bloodshed. Wish you best of luck, if you are part of the resistance!
Not to mention Canadians also don’t need an ESTA. I live less than 30 minutes from the border, I can show up at the port of entry anytime I want with my passport to request entry without any prior arrangements.
The US is not worth it as a travel destination. It’s extremely expensive and the tourism infrastructure is atrocious. Bad airports, terrible public transport, awful traffic, vicious immigration staff.
Save your money and go to Europe instead.
What does it tell about the US that most nordic countries (the most developed countries in the world) don't want to visit them?
Come on Australia, we can do better
Rare W for Switzerland.
Honestly besides Canada and Germany glad many of those countries in Middle East and Africa are dark red many overstay visa.
Well i'm not giving strangers access to my phone, so...
And it's so utterly stupid, anyway
You think that a terrorist, wanting to blow something up, would be trying to enter USA through the border with a phone with data like "I wanna put a bomb under some USA monument" ??
Pictures of a bomb on the phone?
Statements about bombings on their facebook?
They wouldn't bring other (clean) devices??
It's just stupid.
I think you would be pretty surprised what people have on their phones when they come to US points of entry
90% of TSA/airport security is a joke.
Ask any EOD army vet about how they would test TSA with det cord and blasting caps. The failure rate was astonishing
Anecdotally, my most recent flight was last week .. I was wearing a fucking tank top. You know, with no sleeves. The body scanner flagged that I had something in my armpit. That you could see because I was wearing a sleeveless tank top. That had no sleeves.
Bro still patted down my armpit. You could literally see my nipple if I pulled my shirt forward.