Trump's travel ban has already cost the US billions in tourism

[DonViejo]

By Christopher Muther GLOBE STAFF

When President Trump issued his first travel ban, industry analysts predicted it would send a chilly message to travelers around the world and result in a swift drop in the number of tourists to the United States.

Now, studies show those predictions may have become reality.

Since Jan. 27, when the first controversial travel ban was introduced, attempting to bar entry by citizens from seven countries, there has been an overall decline in international visitors of 1.4 percent compared with the same period last year, according to ForwardKeys, an organization that studies global travel patterns. The group looked at travel bookings from January to September of this year.

The travel order, a source of confusion and fear among some foreign travelers, has already resulted in a loss of billions of dollars to the US economy. After a series of court rulings overturned two previous versions of the ban, a federal judge largely blocked the Trump administration from implementing a third version of the ban last week.

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[Achilleaze]

1. Thanks a diaper-load republicans

Yet another way you have weakened America.

[tanyev]

2. Besides the confusion and fear, I bet most of it is people deciding they don't want to come here.

They can spend their tourism dollars elsewhere.

[RKP5637]

3. That's what I've been thinking, many people in general might decide the US is not a

pleasant place to visit. There are many places in the world to go other than the US. Trump and his herd really give the US a bad name. If someone like Trump can be elected it casts a really negative view on Americas to somehow elect an individual such as Trump to be president.

[Ilsa]

4. That's what I was thinking.

Who wants to bring business to a nation of paranoid bigots?

[Scoopster]

5. I work for a tourism website focusing on New England travel

A good percentage of our clients (hotels, inns, tourist attractions, shops, restaurants) have told us for months that there's been a 10-15% dropoff in tourist traffic overall, most of it being international tourism from Europe. Then there's the loss of a good chunk of the seasonal workers, which is a result of the travel ban stigma combined with the anti-immigrant and anti-PoC attitude from this Administration and its bigoted supporters.

[Initech]

6. But hey you know, MAGA.