Posted on 01/19/2012 4:49:11 AM PST by tobyhill
Standing in front of Cindarella Castle at Walt Disney World this afternoon, President Obama will call for a national strategy to make the United States the world’s No. 1 travel and tourism destination.
It may be a small world, but tourism is big bucks. International tourists spent an estimated $140 billion in the U.S. last year. (Full disclosure: Disney is the parent company of ABC News.)
Whether they come here to Disney World to meet Mickey and Minnie Mouse — or elsewhere — tourists from emerging economies such as China, India and Brazil are their own mini stimulus packages — dropping up to $6,000 per tourist.
But for the past decade they’ve been increasingly spending that money elsewhere, as the U.S. share of global tourism plummeted from 17 percent to 11 percent. This is largely because of post-9/11 security proecedures that have made getting a visa an ardous ordeal. One Brazilian tourist we met at Disney World told us it took her three months to get an appointment to apply for her tourist visa.
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That's just plain creepy. What is the point of making yet another telepromptered speech in a place like WDW? Why disrupt the vacations of families visiting there? Everything is does is calculated with evil intentions. It's going to be nothing more than another bogus smear campaign against the republicans. Anything to get a sound byte on the evening news.
Sorry if I called the castle by its wrong name.
Why of course... it’s a Goofy Mickey Mouse Plan. Sorry it was just begging to be said.
Nice graphics!
The Mickey Mouse President finally went Home. . . . . And Took Goofy with him. (MOOShell)
Exactly!
He’s there to get Mickey & Minnie, Donald, Huey, Dewey, Louie, Cinderella, Alice, Perdita, Belle, Goosey Loosey, Scrooge McDuck, Nemo, Ariel, Goofy, Pluto, and Simba registered to vote Dem.
Whoa, silly me. They are already registered Dem in every district in the country.
“Looking for votes in cartoon land.”
What should a cartoon do?
Zippo gets advice from Micky Mouse.
What's the difference?
LOL...
And I’m most interested in what they may say about the possibility of MORE BRAZILIANS.
Oh joy! More packs of hundreds, line busting and constantly singing like freaks. /s
Hey Brazil! Open your own theme park and ruin everyone’s time there at home.
(Though their dames are stoking hot, so they got that going for them.)
ML/NJ
Going for the easy button again. Tourism is not America’s big problem. It’s OBAMA. He will say something very basic and the believers will eat it up.
Will he say the jobs are in the pipeline? Will he make his speech from Fantasyland? Will he march in the parade as one of the 7 dwarves?
Well! Obama is the biggest Fairy of all! And an Arch Enemy of America!
Maybe Disney will hire him to be the Fairy in Chief on Nov. 5, 2012?
It was surprising to also see 0bummer telling his little joke about being glad to be at Disneyworld where “Mickey's ears are bigger than mine”.
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