{"id":17252,"date":"2025-04-10T17:07:04","date_gmt":"2025-04-10T17:07:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=17252"},"modified":"2025-04-10T17:07:05","modified_gmt":"2025-04-10T17:07:05","slug":"international-travel-is-declining-and-its-costing-the-us-its-shaking-everything-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=17252","title":{"rendered":"International travel is declining, and it&#8217;s costing the US: &#8216;It&#8217;s shaking everything up&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8220;Amid recent&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/detentions-us-border-prompt-uk-160903557.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">travel advisories<\/a>&nbsp;warning those coming to the U.S. plus strengthened immigration enforcement, many international travelers are starting to turn away from the U.S. as a destination. Between January and March 2025, foreign arrivals dropped by around 4.4% from those first three months last year, according to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.trade.gov\/us-international-air-travel-statistics-i-92-data\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">data from the National Travel and Tourism Office<\/a>. In a March year-over-year comparison, that reduction doubles to almost 10%.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Some fear for their safety over what could happen when trying to enter the nation&#8217;s borders. Others are angered at recent policies, like the trade wars, and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/politics\/2025\/03\/10\/mark-carney-first-speech-canada-trump\/82220918007\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">rhetoric<\/a>, refusing to spend their dollars in the U.S. A decline in overseas visitors could have significant long-term consequences for the economy, with travel and tourism one of the country&#8217;s leading industries, contributing 2.5% to the GDP&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/international-travel-declining-costing-us-090543078.html\">https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/international-travel-declining-costing-us-090543078.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Amid recent travel advisories warning those coming to the U.S. plus strengthened immigration enforcement, many international travelers are starting to turn away from the U.S. as a destination. Between January and March 2025, foreign arrivals dropped by around 4.4% from those first three months last year, according to data from the National Travel and Tourism Office. In a March year-over-year comparison, that reduction doubles to almost 10%.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Some fear for their safety over what could happen when trying to enter the nation&#8217;s borders. Others are angered at recent policies, like the trade wars, and rhetoric, refusing to spend their dollars in the U.S. A decline in overseas visitors could have significant long-term consequences for the economy, with travel and tourism one of the country&#8217;s leading industries, contributing 2.5% to the GDP&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/international-travel-declining-costing-us-090543078.html<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[221,217,165,272,355,314,1939,170,619],"class_list":["post-17252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-donald-trump","tag-economics","tag-economy","tag-foreign-affairs","tag-foreign-policy","tag-international-relations","tag-tourism","tag-trump","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17252"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17253,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17252\/revisions\/17253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}