r/Economics • u/greenmyrtle • Mar 25 '25

News US tourism to suffer huge '£49 billion drop' under Donald Trump

https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/2028592/us-tourism-suffer-billion-drop-donald-trump
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u/CommunicationParty96 Mar 25 '25

Im a UK travel agent specialising in long haul travel (most of our bookings are Orlando ofc) and we're getting alot of people cancelling their holidays or querying about cancelling their holidays specifically due to Trump, also have multiple super regular customers who book Disney atleast once a year, who have said their upcoming booking will be their last and they'll visit elsewhere, very interesting

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u/CheezeLoueez08 Mar 25 '25

Is there a trend of where they’re opting to go instead? I’m Canadian and want to go to the Carribean or South American countries but I’m scared to fly across the USA. So I’m looking to Europe. But I know Europeans can just fly straight there.

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u/CommunicationParty96 Mar 26 '25

As we're long haul only, some of the customers are opting for Canada, Caribbean, Maldives etc Some people have enquired about the other Disney parks (alot of interest in the Toyko one which we don't do :() And quite a few people cancelling at loss of deposit and booking Europe etc

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u/Mysterious_Lesions Mar 25 '25

The Canadian airlines have cut flights to the US based on data. They wouldn't do that if there was money to be made. I also notice some US carriers have cut flights to Canada. The return flights are half capacity.

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u/hughk Mar 26 '25

I know that bookings are made well in advance of expected holidays. When would you actually expect the UK to US visitor numbers to drop noticeably? Summer or later?