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Visitors stay away: 61% decrease [1]

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Date: 2025-05-27

Millwall FC, London: Their chant is “No one likes us, we don’t care.” And that is what appears to be happening to the US travel and hospitality industry.

Inbound border crossings (raw data)

First, land crossings. The chart (right) shows land crossings for passenger vehicles and persons.

Note: the crossing data is for legal crossings. This article does not touch on undocumented immigration or ‘encounters’.

The vehicles are shown in green, the people in blue. Already it’s apparent the massive effect of Covid-19, which still lingers.

It’s difficult, however, to make out trends because of the noise, so I made a second chart to show the same data with a moving average, to show the trends:

12 month moving average

Here, we see that Covid-19 seems to have long-term impacted the number of crossings, but also that the very recent data shows a further downturn from the date of Trump’s election.

Now let’s look at the flight data.

TTW (Travel and Tour World) reports:

“U.S. Tourism Industry Struggling To Stay Afloat With Sixty-one percent Decrease In Visitors As Trump-Era Policies Deter Foreign Travelers”

Lufthansa has cut flights to New York, Miami, and Chicago, three of the airline’s most important U.S. destinations. British Airways has suspended service to Las Vegas and reduced its operations to Orlando and Philadelphia. Air France has discontinued its Seattle route and reduced service to Washington D.C. KLM is cutting back flights to both San Francisco and Boston. Iberia has postponed its planned launch of a new route to Dallas and reduced service between Madrid and Chicago. You can find complete details, along with reports from travel agents, here.

TTW’s CONCLUSION: The U.S. tourism industry is facing a crisis of its own making. The combination of trade wars, aggressive immigration policies, and growing fears of detention and deportation has created an environment where international tourists are turning away from the country. As other destinations around the world experience growth in tourism, the U.S. finds itself in a period of stagnation, with many businesses in the hospitality industry feeling the effects. Until the political climate changes and the country becomes more welcoming to international visitors, it seems that the U.S. will continue to miss out on the benefits of a thriving global tourism market.

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