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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If everyone is canceling then I bet you can get a lot of good deals.
North Carolina could care less about buggers.
It isn’t being hurt at all. Maybe less money for faggot programs but thats about it.
[[So it’s okay for them to deny business to people they don’t agree with ... but bakers must bake cakes for gay weddings?]]
Excellent point! Why are customers allowed to discriminate against businesses and potentially shut them down — but Christian bakers cannot discriminate against anybody?
>but Christian bakers cannot discriminate against anybody?
Because are an oppressed group. Muslims have no problems discriminating against anyone they feel like.
Wow!
Great research & post!
I question that when the summer is over there will be any backlash evident. This summer’s rentals were showing a slight decrease before the NC law hit the fan. And, in fact, I’ll bet some of the empty weeks will be taken shortly.
Go OBX
There is more to that list but thats a good start.
Nobody that lives here will allow a tranny peeing with children.
Wake up America! North Carolina has taken a stand.
If the NBA wants to move their thugfest next year. So be it.
I may go to the next venue and just pee all over the womens stall of my choice.
So nyah nyah nyah ...!
The wife and I stayed a night each in Mississippi and N. Carolina a few years ago on a trip to Florida (Disney World). After this commotion, we will try to visit those states some more.
Yes indeed, I now know there will be appreciably less weirdos to worry about if I visit those states, N.C. and Mississippi.
The good citizens of this nation should absolutely push those states to the limits bursting with tourist traffic this year.
Wow, what a list! I already purchase Hanes and Burts Bees. I guess I’ll go buy some shirts. I’ll start buying Lowes instead of Home Depot.
Your probably 101% correct. Most folks here on Oak Island and in Southport that rent have been saturated with tourists wanting to rent already with no cancelations. And rest assured that very few in this county (Brunswick) give a rats tail about Ringo Star, Bryan Adams and Bruce Springsteen either. Don’t get me wrong though,,,, we love our rock and we love our country.
paypal is a sh!t company anyway...thought they were going bankrupt already!
as for Marriott too bad...great properties...too bad there CEO or someone in the CEO’s family is queer! Stayed with them, had a card with over 250,009 points and now need a way to get rid of both quickly and start using other properties. With China buying Hilton or something else, choices are dwindling quickly!
Just got back from a vacation in Nags Head. It was also Biker week, lots of friendly Harley Davdison riders in Kill Devils, Nags, outer banks area.
Gay men are not going down to Mississippi for vacation??? You’re telling me they’re bypassing Old Miz and heading towards San Francisco, New York City, Austin, Texas, Provincetown and Fire Island? I don’t believe it!
We always make reservations in January to spend a week at a condo in Pass Christian in June and will do this year but with even more enthusiasm. Friend of ours tried to reserve unit in same area just this last week but they are full. Perhaps other areas of Mississippi are suffering but not this particular beach area.
Mississippi has some good points, like the treasure that matters not always being that which is sitting in an earthly bank account. Maybe because the boastful pride of life means less to them, they don’t make such a big deal of money, or even (to a point of literacy) education.
They get flouted as ignorant “First Self Righteous Church of Pascagoula” rednecks, but they also are used to it. They’re probably actually happier. I thought I read only a couple years ago how the last abortion facility in Mississippi was about to go under — not that it had been banned, which is currently impossible under Roe v. Wade, but that almost nobody was using it.
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