The US will lose up to $29 billion in tourism in 2025 due to Donald Trump’s attacks

International condemnation of Donald Trump has reached tourism in the United States. Last June, the Pew Research Center revealed that the US president had mostly negative ratings in 24 countries, the highest in Mexico. That same month, a study by the World Travel and Tourism Council (WTTC) began to be released, revealing that the United States was the only destination forecast to see a decline in international visitor spending in 2025.

It is the only country of the 184 economies analyzed by the Council that will see a decline this year. The reason? The policies of the White House resident.

The WTTC predicted that the United States is on track to lose $12.5 billion in international visitor spending this year compared to last year, according to the research. However, journalist Suzanne Rowan Kelleher explained, the actual losses will be significantly higher, given that Tourism Economics, a division of Oxford Economics, had originally predicted that the United States would see a 9 percent increase in inbound international travel in 2025.

That is, a 9 percent increase equated to an increase of approximately $16.3 billion in revenue for the U.S. economy. However, with the new data from the WTTC, U.S. tourism will register a year-over-year decline of 8.2 percent, a change from its original 9 percent increase, as analyzed by Forbes, which therefore predicts a deficit of between $25 billion and $29 billion this year.