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.
(Excerpt) Read more at visaverge.com ...
Reality:
Several foreign countries, including Canada, Australia, and the U.K., have issued travel warnings about crime in U.S. cities, particularly highlighting concerns over gun violence, civil protests, and the potential for violent crime in major urban areas like Los Angeles, New York, and Chicago. These advisories urge travelers to exercise increased caution and stay alert in crowded places.
The “gun violence” is caused by the new “smart guns” that hunt down tourists.
Lol.
“ Why the hell would anybody in their right mind go to a filty, deadly “Major US City”, especially on a vacation”
Depends on what the bag limit is on criminals.
If I could shoot my limit each day, it’d be worth a trip.
“Why the hell would anybody in their right mind go to a filthy, deadly “Major US City”, especially on a vacation?”
For many years, I’ve wanted to go to Los Angeles. I’m not one of the I Love Hollywood types. I want to see the Getty Museum, Ronald Reagan’s Presidential Library, the coast near Santa Barbara, the California Citrus State Historic Park, Little Tokyo, etc, etc.
But the more and more I read, it really makes me wonder if it’s worth it.
The Getty Museum is definitely worth a visit.
It is in the best part of the city with lots of security because of the priceless art on the premises.
It has regular guided tours on site that are excellent.
LA is the classic third world city—the very wealthy live in beautiful enclaves.
They only have percentage declines for three cities:
NYC: 17%
LA and SF: 9%
In NYC they banned Airbnb, banned new hotel construction and took maybe 10% of the city’s hotels offline for migrant housing.
Tomorrow night the cheapest room with two beds at a Courtyard “hotel” near Times Square is $518.
RE: D run cities is more likely the cause.
So that means Dem run cities are less able to gain from tourist money.
I like it.
Any time they want to reform, we’ll be back.
“New York City, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Miami, Chicago, Orlando, and Honolulu.”
I don’t want to go to most of these cities either.
I guess I would go back to Waikiki Beach again. Only because Pearl Harbor was pretty cool. We were on our way to the Big Island and stayed a couple nights there first.
Catalina Island is pretty cool too.
I can’t decide if it’s SF or LA or NYC this summer. Or none of the above…
What do all the large urban cities have in common? They are controlled by leftists. People aren’t thinking about Trump when they skip over San Francisco as a tourist destination. They are thinking about all the videos they see of the graffiti, druggies, thefts, assaults, etc that are posted daily.
I suspect those cancelling their planned trips to Cincinnati, after viewing the beat-down of that white couple over this past weekend, never once thought about Trump’s policies.
I don’recall the President defecating on the sidewalk in those big blue cities.
Now Biden, that would be a more nuanced question.
I could go to Europe or Mexico or South Frikkin America but the poverty stricken population make me a little hesitant to say the least. I will travel in the USA and maybe Canada thanks very much. I would consider visiting Iceland and Greenland but my list ends there. When traveling I would be careful not to visit too deeply in the urban areas which we are living right here in California. In fact there are places a couple of blocks from my home that I wouldn’t visit because they are apartment complexes. I know of one place where the liberals have moved in right across a single lane street from the projects. They tore down a bunch of warehouses and built high density townhouse condos right next to the HUD projects where the residents never move out because the price of free is hard to beat.
What is ironic is Boston.
Boston is a total liberal city.
However, the city of Boston is actually quite safe.
Especially where all the touristy areas of Freedom trail out to Fenway and over into Cambridge or Charlestown.
That is because the Boston police actually do their job. They keep the city safe.
The Sh#t hole parts are Roxbury, Mattapan, Dorchester and other areas that the tourists typically do not enter.
Reagan’s library is in Simi Valley and that is far from Los Angeles both literally and figuratively.
I just saw a video including a woman who lives in Cincinnati and said the city gets a lot of revenue from all the people who come in for the festival.
So I say boycott to pay back (a tiny bit) for the attacks on people yesterday.
People in the crowd chose not to intervene and not to call 911 (one call was later made——ONE.) Many were celebrating and shouting encouragement to the attackers. To be fair I believe 3 could be seen helping the shaken male victims to their feet and two trying to get the unconscious woman whose head hit the concrete to wake up.
Thus a partial payment should be to shun the city.
I call BS…the main N-S corridor in FL to Orlando I-75 and FL Turnpike is consistently chock full of vehicles w/ out of state plates. IFYKYK.
” International visitors: New York City expects 2 million fewer international visitors in 2025, a 17% drop from the previous year.”
Sorry, Visaverge, whose A hole did you pull this data from? New York City “expects”??? Cities do not “expect”, only people can do that. You see, cities don’t have brains. They aren’t alive. And the dollar is getting crushed, Europeans should come while a Euro is $1.17.
Because in Europe and Asia, the city centers are the tourist attractions and the scum are exiled to the suburbs. Visitors from those countries can never seem to wrap their minds around the idea that the USA works the opposite way.
The usual legacy media suspects are working overtime to convince potential foreign visitors that they may be arrested and sent to Alligator Alcatraz if they don't wear MAGA hats 24/7 after arriving, so it isn't surprising there has been a short-term drop in tourism. The Administration can overcome this with accurate messaging.
They do make a point though. Most cities in USA are awful. It shouldn't be that way.
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