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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They like rednecks, but those are hoked up rednecks a la Deliverance, not real rednecks who have entirely too much Southern religion.
We’ll see.
I think less about virtue signaling, more about virtue. I hear the sizzle. Show me the steak.
Dinner is over. Nothing left but scraps.
Yeah, but they quoted someone from England who dissed the two states. Can’t have that, now can we? Must cancel all these properly adjudicated rules to please the folks from England, right?
That’s kind of what I fear, with a rueful chuckle.
We’re watching dying embers that mean not a lot. Even these scattered state bans are just waiting for a court decision that they are unenforceable (not even “bad policy” or “against civil rights”).
God knows how to bring a people back to life if they are at all willing, however. And it won’t be through bans, it will be through banners. Of churches at which things that are actually noteworthy begin happening.
I think it’s pure fantasy to think people come all the way from Britian to Mississippi and North Carolina. LOL, sure they do.
That’s not to imply that none do, but isn’t this just pure B.S., people from way over there now fixated on a people who don’t want weirdos hanging out around their spouses and children.
I suspect the whole thing is these cross dressers not wanting to take their chances in the men’s restrooms.
This whole nation seems to be turning into Sodom and Gomorrah.
Sunbrella fabrics made in Burlington by Glen Raven.
Before nafta, NC was prime furniture and fabric/apparel. They lost jobs long before it was fashionable. Also, tobacco.
Jesus made an interesting comment about those cities, though. That if they had witnessed the miracles that Jerusalem had witnessed they would have repented.
The spotlight is embarrassingly bright on the churches here. They are the means by which Christ is invited. If churches discover that they cannot manipulate Caesar any more, maybe they will go to Plan B (which was God’s Plan A).
Not credible. Most people generally avoid perverts. NC seems to be creating a “safe zone” against them.
And most “perverts” (in this sense) go under cover anyhow.
This is waiting for a court case, I fear, in which the law will be declared unenforceable. Are we going to require IDs?
I see a battle being fought on an ineffective front.
Probably good places to visit, especially if uncluttered with queers, freaks and perverts .... sort of like a vacation!
I really doubt that it will be that much different than before.
I just moved from Maryland to Long Beach, MS in August. One of the reasons I came here was because I figured MS would be the “last one standing” to liberalism. I sure haven’t noticed any difference in traffic along the beach. A couple of weekends ago I got caught in the “Biloxi Black Beach Weekend” traffic. Needless to say, I was surprised. It was pretty bad. The people and the traffic.
Really? As a Southport local I'd just love to be able to make it to the NAPA on Howe St around lunchtime w/o having to wade thru the throngs of terrists clogging the streets. Hehehe.
And quit calling that chithole Charlotte "NC". It's a very large alien spacecraft from some galactic liberal mecca that landed here years ago in an attempt to score some decent BBQ. They've accomplished their mission, but still refuse to leave. Typical friggin progressives. d;^)
I’m not buying that they’ve seen a high level of cancellations, much less from families who won’t start traveling en masse till June when schools are out. The NYT is working to make a story.
‘These article fail the rationality test.’
Most people in this country can’t even identify a picture of the VP. This is crazy. Can you imagine the call the NYT’s made to random hotels fishing for anecdotal evidence of a boycott?
“Have you experienced any reservation cancellations in the last 2 weeks” “Yes we have”.....There ya go, boycott confirmed. Ready for print.
Pathetic.
NC isn’t losing a damn dime. 5th busiest airport in the USA and 6th busiest in the World.
NC is kicking ass on the data front.
The 1% of faggots can go to hell. They are not welcome and they cannot pee on your daughter.
Wait until tourist season gets started. 211 & Long Beach Rd. will be much fun. We live on the west side of the island and can almost see Sunset Harbor directly. We’re neighbors.
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