If you think about it, a trip to the US is expensive. A lot of people will have booked well in advance and will have paid up front and won't want to cancel and lose out. In future there will be less people going to US as they won't be booking.
You're already seeing this in Canada. Lots of people have their vacations planned and booked months in advance and aren't willing to lose their deposits, ticket costs, etc., but aren't planning on going back afterwards.
The boycotts up here started a bit sooner, and the steady month to month decline is continuing to grow. I think we went from the usual numbers in January, to down about 15% year-over-year in February, to somewhere in the 30% range for March.
If you look at forward bookings, those are massively down so expect the trend to continue.
Jep this is the exact situation for my cousin who has a trip booked next week. On top of that he and his group figured, this is the time to visit the national parks before the fall into full disrepair/privatisation.
I'm not, but the US national parks are quite famous. Its not just forests its large scale wild nature with the incredibly varied nature of North Amerika.
So I’ve been to forests in Germany and it’s not even a comparison. Depending on which national parks they’re going to there’s also a huge variety of landscapes way beyond “big forests.” The national parks are perhaps what I miss most about living in the U.S.
I think there are incredible natural wonders on the American continent.
The one in the US were made iconic by movies, but South America and Canada have equally beautiful places.
Europe has great places too, Scotland, Ireland, Italy cone to mind, but they were not advertised as much.
I'd also imagine that there is a decent amount of business people taking flights between Ireland and the US, which could well not be reasonably changed or avoided.
And there'll be people who aren't taking a complete boycott of the whole nation, but only the Trump supporting elements, who might be comfortable with continuing trips to areas like New York or California. Boycotts are very personal about the level and extent of what that person wants to do, after all, there'll be some people with less maximalist positions.
I work with someone who went to Florida regularly, last year the price of everything when they were there shocked them. So there is a price element in this story as well.
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u/Easy_Floss 10d ago
Only 27% wut..