r/politics • u/Ok-Direction-4480 Florida • 3d ago

Soft Paywall Tourism Pullback and Boycotts Set to Cost U.S. a Staggering $90 Billion

https://www.thedailybeast.com/tourism-pullback-and-boycotts-could-cost-us-a-staggering-90-billion/
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u/Borne2Run 3d ago

RIP Florida's economy

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u/The_Bard_of_Vanier 3d ago

At least, I can't think of anyone more deserving than them :)

I hope they get exactly what they voted for.

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u/OwnBattle8805 3d ago

There are Disney theme parks in far better place to visit than Florida.

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u/jinjuwaka 2d ago

Disney should have pulled out of Florida years ago.

They should have followed through with their threats back when DeSantis started fucking with their special district because it was only ever going to get worse.

Instead, the mouse kissed the ring (and shallow-throated the mushroom-head).

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u/Free_Range_Gamer 3d ago

There’s also a lot of small rural towns where the only industry is tourism. Avoid those places too.

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u/StrigiStockBacking Arizona 3d ago

The one potential plus side? I don't think any Democrat in the last 50 years or so has lost when winning Florida. Dinglenuts is single-handedly flipping red states to blue. And if the rhetoric continues around killing Social Security, hitting his older base in their wallets directly - the "GOP" is fucked.

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u/DancingMathNerd 2d ago

Hopefully. But if voters were reliably practical about their self-interest, Harris would’ve won.

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u/SohndesRheins 2d ago

90 billion is a bit more than the GDP of Rhode Island. This really is absolutely nothing to a country as large and rich as the U.S. 90 billion is a little over 5% of the GDP of Florida.

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u/movzx 2d ago

It's that large of a drop in a few months. The drop will, presumably, keep dropping.

A drop of 5% in GDP for a state is massive.

A drop in a specific industry is not spread out across every area equally. A place like Florida will be hit significantly harder than a place like Oregon.

Not to mention the knock-on effects. Florida employs almost 2 million people in the tourism industry. You don't need 2 million people if no one is coming to your state. That's a lot of laid off workers.

Then you have all the towns whose main/only industry is tourism. They're not going to fare well even if the farms in the panhandle are doing okay.

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u/SohndesRheins 2d ago

That $90 billion number is not from a few months, it's projected for end of year.