Posted on 07/28/2025 12:37:53 PM PDT by DallasBiff
When planning a trip to the United States 🇺🇸, international visitors often weigh their options between major destinations like New York City, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Miami, Chicago, Orlando, and Honolulu. In 2025, these choices have become more complicated due to a sharp decline in tourism spending and international arrivals, with each city facing unique challenges and responses. This comparison will help travelers, industry professionals, and policymakers understand the differences between these destinations, the reasons behind The downturn, and which options may best suit different needs.
Let’s break down the situation by examining the most affected cities, the factors driving the decline, and the practical implications for international visitors and the tourism industry.
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Went to NYC on a road trip in the mid 80's and once out of the Holland tunnel, a window washer came up unannounced and did the windshield. Walked around Times Square, porn shops and sleazy prostitutes everywhere. Went again to NYC for a wedding in the mid 90's and it was 100% different when Guiliani was in charge.
LOL
NOT due to Trump’s policies. Due to the Dem lies about how ALL foreigners are being “disappeared”. So file this one under “Fake News”.
Why go to LA when you can go to Cairo or Mumbai, they’re much nicer. Why go to Chicago when you can go to Luanda or Lagos, they’re much safer.
No mention of homeless encampments on the streets in places like LA and SF.
Foreign visitors get to find out about those the hard way.
You have to admire the gaslighting creativity, the Democrats have rebranded illegal invasion as “Tourism”!
Wonder how may tourists were planning on coming here and never leaving ?
They’re confusing ‘correlation with causation’.
D run cities is more likely the cause.
Yeah, no one is going to Broadway plays because Trump caused rampant crime, huge local taxes on tourists, and for the play offerings to be woke garbage.
Oh, and crazy bums everywhere.
What downturn? Oh, the one they made up a few months ago, the one that never happened.
Pity the poor bastards. They went to great lengths to fill the media with stories about the depression that Trump was causing. They had stories about coloring potatoes rather than eggs because of Trump.
A miserable failure. But they aren’t giving up. The dems, more than most people, know that if you repeat a lie often enough people will believe it.
Europeans feel better when there is a lot of shit on the sidewalks.
Come to LA and see our wonderful crazy vagrant encampments! Smell the fires!
See beautiful downtown poop and needle piles in San Fransico!
Come get beaten by “youth” in Cincinnati if you are a stupid whitey!
Enjoy the chants of “kill the Jews” in all major tourist area! (Liz and a select few fellow Mohammedans here might like that one.)
Come see the magic revolving door as your mugger and attacker gets released to attack you again!
I’d say most.
Exactly!
This is the funniest thread I’ve seen here in ages.
Who wants to spend money in an expensive sh!thole?
Why the hell would anybody in their right mind go to a filty, deadly “Major US City”, especially on a vacation?
We have oceans, mountains, Great Lakes, forests National Parks...etc.
Mentally challenged libtards.
“Don’t want to get shanked at walmart” might be a reason
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