European travellers cancel US visits as Trump’s policies threaten tourism

The number of European travelers visiting the United States has decreased severe as the political and economic tensions and the hostile border under President Donald Trump.

The International Trade Administration said that visitors from Western Europe who stayed in the United States at least one night were reduced to 5 percent from one year ago in March.

An FT analysis of ITA data has shown that travel from some countries, including Ireland, Norway and Germany, has dropped more than 20 percent.

This trend is a threat to the US tourism industry, which is 2.5 percent of the country’s GDP. Some airlines and hotel groups have warned about a “bad rumor” about reducing the demand for translatant travel and moving to the United States.

According to the ITA data, the total number of foreign visitors traveling to the United States in March was reduced by 12 percent, the highest decrease since March 2021.

“In just two months [Trump] Destroyed fame in the United States, showed one way from the EU to the United States, “Paul English on the Travel Website Paul English says KayakThe “This is not just an more horrible injury for the US economy, it also represents the fame loss that can repair the generation.”

Tourism Economy President Adam Sacks said that during the Easter in March last year, the degradation could be partially reflected in travel growth.

However, he said that all other information, including US airport and land crossing from Canada, showed that “this is something very clear. … and this is a response to Trump”.

Translatantic routes are the world’s most profitable and the airlines epidemic, especially in the premium seats, enjoy the glorious demand on these flights.

Virgin Atlantic warned of “modest” recession from US customers last week, and on Wednesday, Air France-LM CEO Ben Smith said that the carrier was forced to cut the economy class translatant fare in the market “little softness”.

However, both British Airways owner IAG and US Career Delta Air Line said they had not seen any effect.

Airline fate is closely associated with the more widespread economy, because customers stop flying when they are worried about the recession. Berkless analysts say that this week they are concerned about the translatant route, where they expect the profit to “suddenly decreased”.

Naren Sham, CEO of Travel Booking Site Omio, says the cancellation rate of the booking in the United States was 5 percent higher in the first quarter than a year ago – travelers from the United Kingdom, Germany and France showed more cancellation rates.

Sabastian Bajin Bloomberg, chief executive of the French hotel giant Aco, told Bloomberg that news of detention on the US border created a “bad rumor” around the United States.

Acor said last week that bookings for Europeans in the United States were reduced by 25 percent this summer.

The reduction of international visitors in the United States refers to the potential economic impact of a more aggressive border policy under Trump.

Last year, international visitors spent more than $ 253 billion in US travel and tourist-related products and services according to the ITA, or more than 19 percent of US travel expenditure in 2024, more than 19 percent of $ 1.3tn.

The US Travel Association, an industrial group, warned about “trends”, which has put it on the reasons including “question of America welcome”.

Delter president Glenn Hunstein said that the career was “significant” in booking from Canada. Airline Its guidance pull In the widespread uncertainty this week.

Gloria Sink, an artist and author in Nottingham in England, says he has canceled the journey to San Francisco after seeing the detained tourist report.

“The borders seem to be insecure,” Sink said, who was ejaculated and he said that he could bring his identity to the border “unwanted attention”. “I don’t know that I will never go back, to speak the truth.”

Travel from Canadians the main source of tourism for “winter-no” destinations Also rejectThe For example, places in the United States, for example, welcomed the 1.4 million Canadians in 2023 – or a quarter of all international visitors.

The research agency is the tourism economy, which previously assumed 9 percent increase In international arrivals compared to 2024, its forecast of the last week was modified in one 9.4 percent reduced Instead of the last week after Trump announced the tariff.

Saxes also pointed to Trump’s aggressive speech to the EU, Greenland and Canada. “All these are unforgettable flaws, and they have a significant impact on the feeling of the United States and so travel.”

Retired Paul Harrington, led by USAID, Trump’s duty and its administration’s foreign aid agency, is Britain living in Paris, to cancel the Washington DC travel next year.

In the UK, his two daughters work in education and a recession can be at risk of public sector jobs.

Harrington said, “I’m now in contact with my US friends to visit me in Paris.” “I will not go to states until Trump goes.”