Posted on 04/24/2016 1:39:06 PM PDT by reaganaut1
The reaction has been swift.
The singer Bryan Adams canceled his concert in Mississippi in protest against what he called an “anti-L.G.B.T.” law, and the actress Sharon Stone decided not to film a movie there. In North Carolina, Bruce Springsteen, Ringo Starr, Pearl Jam and Ani DiFranco have canceled shows in response to a law regulating transgender bathroom access.
While the celebrity response is drawing considerable attention, the travel industry in each state is more concerned about lower-profile visitors: the everyday tourists who have already begun canceling trips or planning vacations elsewhere.
Both states have been hit by hotel cancellations from tourists who spend a combined tens of billions of dollars annually, and though the effect is difficult to quantify so early on, local hotels, tourist boards, industry associations and government officials fear that a boycott will continue to dampen business. Making matters tougher for the businesses, the Foreign Office in Britain has issued an advisory for L.G.B.T. travelers going to the two states based on the laws.
The impact is already being felt in North Carolina, which last month passed a law that limits transgender people to using bathrooms that match the sex on their birth certificates. Tourism is a crucial driver of the economy in the state, the sixth most-visited in the country, where domestic travelers spent a record $21.3 billion in 2014, according to Visit North Carolina, the state’s tourist board.
In Charlotte, which has a large convention center, more than 20 conventions have either canceled or are no longer considering holding their event in the state, resulting in a loss of around $2.5 million according to the Charlotte Regional Visitors Authority.
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Cape Hatteras is a great place for a summer vacation. I learned to wind surf there. Will go again this summer.
I really wish there something to help NC. I don’t even know what products to buy from them.
Yes, because everyone knows only LGBT folks travel around the nation.
I know the 98% of the populace that doesn’t want grown men in with their wives and daughters in the restroom will be very angry at those two states. /s
These article fail the rationality test.
Maybe the transvestites will stop coming to MS and NC. Is that a problem?
Our tourism tax benefit has been great this last quarter. Tourism for Civil War sites has never been better. This is probably that people that visit and study the Civil War are not highly ignorant.
It’s only a matter of time till they cave in to the bullies.
Boycotts never work....well, except for maybe Macy’s
Funny, up until the SC found committing Sodomy makes a citizen a new person with special rights, the people of the US when they could actually vote on it voted AGAINST Deviant marriage.
Hopefully everyone avoids Asheville and the stupid chick day-trip Biltmore.
This is the media cartel trying to gin up outrage to prove that they are still “relevant”.
The nation is getting tired of their scam.
That depends upon whether or not NC gives in. If it does, there will be a lasting impact. If not, the business will be promptly replaced.
Lets see what happens to Target. I bet they go the JC Pennys route to non existence.
And hopefully everyone will remember it was the super liberal mayor of Charlotte, Jennifer Roberts and her super perverted friend and registered sex offender who pushed the ordinance.
If Jennifer Roberts gets re-elected than I won’t feel sorry for North Carolina. They asked for it!
Seems like a made-up NY Slimes hit piece.
I don’t think it will. The whole world was going to boycott us (Mississippi) over our flag vote too. Of course, times were different even just those few years ago, and I could be wrong. But the people of Mississippi are very stubborn, and don’t take kindly to blackmail even if our leadership winds up knuckling under. I find it hard to believe that Gov Bryant didn’t take all this into account when he made his stand. One good things about being a consistently poor state, it helps when you ain’t got much to lose in the first place.
I won’t hold my breath for the day The New York Slimes reports on the fact that Mississippi has come in first place for app a decade for the state which gives the most to charity relative to its wealth. (and it’s true charity, not endowments for the arts and such things for the entertainment of rich people, such as some states have included in their rankings for “charity”. Nothing wrong with that kind of giving, but it’s not succor to the poor).
I’m just biding my time until the media gets bored with us, as they always do if we Mississippians just let their criticism just go in one ear and the other without deigning to respond, and move on to more exciting stories.
This article is total BS...North Carolina tourism will be “business as usual” for the summer....
I don’t think so. We didn’t on our flag vote, and I can’t believe that the governor et al didn’t take the possibility of all this into account. I surely hope our men haven’t changed so fast, if the times have.
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