PeterAdding $US250 to the fees, telling people (tourists, students, business travellers) not to expect to get it back, while also cutting Brand USA's budget by 80%.
They really don't understand just how much money international visitors to the USA add to the economy, do they?
**Students** keep universities and small accomodation orgs afloat.
**Tourists** keep businesses, from small coffee shops to major hotel chains and theme parks, afloat.
**Business travellers** ditto, plus conference centres, and manufacturing and distribution businesses.
All of these keep local air travel viable, affecting nearly all small airlines and many of the big ones.
I've never, in all my decades, seen a more economically illiterate group of politicians; and I live in Australia, where we have some doozies!
#USPolitics #USPol #USTourism #USBusiness #USStudents #Travel #Tourism #USA #BrandUSA
Kim Perales (@[email protected])
🚨Trump just put the nail in the coffin for tourism in America, The industry brought in $181B last year. "The “visa integrity fee” will be at least $250 during the US fiscal year 2025, which runs from Oct 1, 2024 to Sept 30, 2025... Thereafter, the fee will be adjusted for inflation." #Tourism #GDP #Austerity #Trumpcession #Jobs #Unemployment #Protest #USPol https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/18/visa-integrity-fee-what-to-know-about-new-travel-fee-to-enter-the-us-.html
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