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"It’s Summer Vacation Time. Tourists Are Saying No to America."
"Overseas travelers are demonstrating their ire at the U.S. by taking their tourism dollars elsewhere."
"There used to be thousands of people from Canada. They would give me Canadian dollars and I would change it at the bank." said Omar Tallat, 35 years old, who runs a corn dog stand near Times Square.
"This year, business is very bad."
"Flight bookings to the U.S. from Europe are down by about 12% through August. San Francisco, Washington, D.C., and Los Angeles are seeing even larger declines."
"Overseas travelers say they are swapping U.S. vacation plans for trips to Europe or in their own countries. Some cite the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown and reports of foreign visitors being detained or deported from the U.S. Others say they want to signal their discontent with Trumps policies, echoing boycotts of American-made products by Canadians and Teslas in Europe."
"There’s not a lot I can do politically, but what I can do is not spend my money in the U.S.," said Marc Toews, a 53-year-old Canadian long-haul truck driver.
https://www.wsj.com/business/its-summer-vacation-t... 