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[–] leadore@lemmy.world 29 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Bizarre AI photo at the top, no author byline, no link to the source of the data (if there is one), no specific report mentioned, just "the latest analysis".

This looks to me like an AI-generated article where someone either prompted it to "summarize" a real report or else it hallucinated a report based on whatever supposedly relevant internet news it's eaten recently.

Going to the site that comes up for a search for World Travel & Tourism Council and looking around on it, I don't see a report on this topic.

[–] bampop@lemmy.world 27 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (3 children)

Why would you not want to visit a fascist hell-hole where human rights don't exist, the rule of law has broken down, and you can be abducted, imprisoned without charge or deported at any moment just for the crime of being foreign?

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[–] Pacattack57@lemmy.world 39 points 6 days ago (3 children)

Good. I hope thousands of landlords can’t afford their extra homes and are forced to sell, driving down housing prices.

[–] Bubbaonthebeach@lemmy.ca 13 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Last time housing prices crashed in the USA, people's incomes crashed as well or their mortgage obtaining ability did. All it meant was that the already rich and corporations were able to buy up real estate cheap. Did not remotely help 90% of the population.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 7 points 6 days ago

All it meant was that the already rich and corporations were able to buy up real estate cheap.

Something like half of all real estate is owned by private equity.

If you genuinely care about wealth consolidation among the ultra-rich, and you seriously want to do something about it, there's a Little Red Book with some helpful advice.

But just propping up Boomer real estate values for another ten years isn't an answer either. It's a losing game to pretend you can outwit Blackrock on home ownership.

[–] cantstopthesignal@sh.itjust.works 12 points 6 days ago (1 children)

They will only be replaced by richer landlords

[–] Dozzi92@lemmy.world 6 points 6 days ago

Yeah, private capital can just roll in and buy it all up, great!

[–] Ledericas@lemm.ee 4 points 6 days ago

its usually the already corporate landlords, will bought off by even larger ones, like blackrock.

[–] Freshparsnip@lemm.ee 17 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Anyone who willingly goes to the Untied States is a fool

[–] Sixtyforce@sh.itjust.works 2 points 6 days ago

Still a vast majority then despite headlines. Which isnt surprising.

[–] aesthelete@lemmy.world 18 points 6 days ago

More like America Worst Policy

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 9 points 6 days ago

As a US citizen I'm nervous to do international tourism as well after hearing so many people get detained at the border. It's crazy.

[–] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 10 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Are americans, both left and right, still believing that their dear leader is a business genius? I think an elementary school grade 2 committee would do better.

[–] angstylittlecatboy@reddthat.com 9 points 6 days ago (1 children)

when did left americans ever think he's a genius

[–] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 1 points 5 days ago

I believe 6 of them did, but it was the 80's.

[–] GoodOleAmerika@lemmy.world 17 points 6 days ago

Nice. Hope tipping system goes away.

[–] skisnow@lemmy.ca 12 points 6 days ago

JFC that fucking pisspoor AI photo they used. I fucking hate the future so much.

[–] firepenny@lemmy.world 13 points 6 days ago

No shit, fuck around and find out.

[–] Prior_Industry@lemmy.world 13 points 6 days ago (2 children)

All patriotic Americans should only vacation within the US or pay a holiday tariff to do so abroad!

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[–] SnarkoPolo@lemm.ee 5 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

You think this wasn't part of the plan? Crash the economy, then use the bad economy as a rationale to impose deep austerity and privatization.

Plus, it's easier to commit atrocities against your citizens when the free world can't see. Wealthy Russians and Saudis will still visit.

[–] clever_ideas_sometimes@sh.itjust.works 3 points 6 days ago (3 children)

This article is a bunch of fluff. Do we have any data to support the claim that tourism is down? What are the projected losses based on?

[–] NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 15 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

There's multiple reports over multiple weeks showing declines of 15-25% in automobile crossings at the Canada/USA borders. Some flights have reduced frequency as well.

E.g

https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/article/land-border-crossings-into-the-united-states-down-by-hundreds-of-thousands-data-shows/

https://www.ctvnews.ca/business/article/these-airlines-paused-or-cancelled-canada-us-flights-in-the-wake-of-the-trade-war/

Now, I can't speak to losses, and this is only from Canada, but it's not nothing either.

Data from our may long weekend last week will probably be out soon as well.

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[–] SereneSadie@lemmy.myserv.one 12 points 6 days ago

I mean, I do have to concede that multiple accounts of abuse by TSA and border patrol, including solitary confinement without charge, plus many countries issuing a travel warning for America isn't 'data and projected losses'...

[–] turtlesareneat@discuss.online 8 points 6 days ago

IDK why they don't link to the actual report they're referencing but it appears they've been a real player in travel/tourism data for several decades.

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