More Tales of the Economics President

More Tales of the Economics President

Via Semafor: Decline in tourism hits US economy. Overseas visitors to the US are on track to drop by almost two million year-on-year, with even the FIFA Men’s World Cup failing to arrest the decline in tourism. The slide is hurting the US economy, and as Axios put it, is partly “self-inflicted:” There has been…

Tourism chiefs can't understand why the number of visitors to the US has dropped by 2 million in the past year, and people are happy to solve the mystery for them

The tourism industry in the US is in crisis. That’s the message from a report by the Semafor outlet this week, finding that “overseas visitors to the US are on track to drop by almost two million year-on-year, with even the FIFA Men’s World Cup failing to arrest the decline in tourism.” Visitors to the […]

Semafor’s U.S. Tourism Graph Crime – Pixel Envy

Semafor published a graph earlier this week purportedly showing a staggering decline in tourism to the United States from five countries. Among them, it appeared to illustrate a decline from over twenty million Canadian visitors a few years ago to under eight million this year. That felt fishy to me as I had also recently read a Statistics Canada bulletin claiming Canadian travel to the U.S. in June rose by 5% year-over-year, marking the “third …