The 'self-inflicted injury' to US tourism that's making some Americans angry and disappointed

[Norbert]

Joe Koenen has not seen a single Toronto Blue Jays baseball hat all summer.

Typically, Canadians will flood the streets of Seattle during the summer, but Koenen, who runs Seattle Free Walking Tours (where people pay what they can), said Canadian tourists are almost gone. Streets look emptier to him.

Canadians calling to cancel their tours “explicitly told me that it was because of the policies and the behavior of our current president,” he said.

As a result of seeing 30% fewer customers this year overall, Koenen has been paying his employees but not himself. This is also the first year since he took over the tour company in 2021 that he has had to put his own savings into the business to keep it afloat.

“I am super-duper angry. I’m also disappointed, but I’m more sad … it’s such a self-inflicted injury,” Koenen said...

https://www.msn.com/en-us/travel/north-america-travel/the-self-inflicted-injury-to-us-tourism-that-s-making-some-americans-angry-and-disappointed/ar-AA1LA6Vi?ocid=msedgntp&pc=HCTS&cvid=68b45b5e4d5246fbb9286f5edd64a661&ei=15

[wcmagumba]

1. T-rump is a world grade moron...

[tanyev]

2. A disappointed tour operator:

“It’s hard to be angry, because it’s not just me,” he said. “For all the promises of a good economy — and maybe people were thinking, ‘we’ll sacrifice some culture war things for this good economy that’s going to come from this administration.’ It doesn’t seem like that’s happening.”

🙄

[kerouac2]

3. Sacrifice some cultural things...

Like democracy and equal rights and and and...

[Blue Full Moon]

4. They are in the find out stage.

[beaglelover]

5. I'm interested to see how the Palm Springs area is going to look come fall. That's when usually a whole bunch of

license plates from Canada start to show up and they are usually here until late April. If they don't come this year or ever while tRump is in office, the Coachella Valley is going to be in for a world of hurt economically.