On August 25, 2021, tourists take a look at the sigh bridge in Venice, Italy.
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Caroline Smith, an auditing director from Verona, New Jersey, and her husband brought her two children to Italy this month. On the Spanish steps in Rome, they came to another family from their city. Two other families from the same area also visited Italy at the same time, she said.
The families are part of an emerging trend in the global travel industry of 11 trillion US dollars: Americans travel abroad in droves, while the number of visitors sinks into the USA.
Foreign foreign visitors in the United States fell by almost 10% in March compared to the same month earlier and almost 13% from pandemic to 4.54 million people.
The Easter week last year was in March and prompted some vacation this year. However, US citizens who fly abroad rose by 1.6% compared to last March and rose by 22% from 2019 to 6.56 million travelers.
The imbalance could further deepen the gap between more than 50 billion US dollars between what the United States creates through travel and tourism services and what Americans spend abroad. It is a concern for the US travel industry that brings about 1 trillion US dollar a year. The US Travel Association on January 9 announced that the expenditure from international tourism in the United States has increased by more than 12% this year.
Another trade war, another trade war, top-class members of visitors as well as a visa owner and constant residents as well as the rhetoric of President Donald Trump to take over countries like Canada, and a strong US dollar for a large part of this year and travel mountains and travel mountains have not helped to make the demand from international travelers.
“The agenda of President Trump, America, the America wealthy, safe and beautiful, benefits the Americans and international visitors alike,” said Anna Kelly, spokeswoman for the White House, in a declaration of email. She said the government was “the efforts to show everything that America is doing great by bringing global sporting events, including the World Cup and the Olympic Games, to the USA.”
JPmorgan warned that the decline in foreigners in the United States can deduct around 0.1% from gross domestic product this year.
“This may indicate another channel that must be taken into account when assessing the effects of tariffs on economic activity,” says the. “Causes regarding the detention of foreign visitors, sometimes by chance, only exacerbate this effect.”
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Samuel Engel, Senior Vice President of the consulting company ICF, said that “there is no question that foreigners keep the United States less inviting” when hesitation to travel from abroad from abroad to the USA now appears in international business trips.
“In view of the uncertainty, business people are not ink degrees,” he said.
United airlines Last week, bookings from international passengers that come from Europe fell by 6%, while those who come from Canada had dropped by 9% in the previous year. Delta air lines said it was a similar phenomenon.
However, the appetite of American consumers on international trips contributes to alleviating the blow of fewer international tourists and weaker than expected demand from domestic US trips for some companies such as United and Delta.
“I traveled a lot through Europe in front of Europe, so I tried to do the same with the family after the children are older,” said Smith, 44, who has a 7-year-old and an 11-year-old. “We went to Spain in 2023 and Portugal in 2024, partly selected because the flights are short compared to Greece, which is on the list.”
Grace Cular Yee, a travel consultant who belongs to the pineapple agency in Lansdowne, VirginiaPresent Many of their customers consider more than domestic trips in part because they want to get out on College, as their children largely missed the celebrations in the high school during the Covid celebrations in the high school.
“This is a big milestone for the whole family,” she said, adding that many travelers receive ideas from social media, but more Americans are inspired by television programs, such as the latest season of “The White Lotus”, which plays in Thailand. She said that she had recently planned a trip to France for a high school daughter high school because the daughter loves the show “Emily in Paris”.
United said that Advanced Bookings rose stable and premium cabin turnover by 17%at the beginning of this month, while international demand rose by 5%.
The President of Delta, Glen Hauenstein, is optimistic that the trend will continue, and said that the money sale for international trips is running the same point last year.
“For the turnover that has been in the door since yesterday, today we have been very strong for international by September, October,” he said in a profit call on April 9 and added that international sales had increased a year.
Many working Americans and pensioners are on the rise with the latest market tumult, but wealthy and aging travelers, especially in the expensive front of the aircraft, help to compensate for this.
“As a baby boomer, I can say this without fear of retribution: It is only so much time to go to Europe or almost as much time to see Australia or Japan,” said Hauenstein about the win. “So you have this asset effect, in which this cohort of pensioners is also richer with the recent decline than any other cohort and they want to do things.”
It is not clear whether a withdrawal of consumer expenses in the back of the aircraft or even a certain softness of growth in corporate trips is a sign that high-end bookings for international leisure management will also weaken. The job market is currently strong.
“Everyone's life is not completely interrupted, but everyone's life has more difficult at the moment,” said ICFS Engel. “The way people manage to manage uncertainty is that they hold back decisions.”
Correction: Hauenstein spoke about a profit call from April 9. The date incorrectly specified an earlier version.
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