Would you visit USA in the current climate?

It's always felt fake to me, I got tired of listening to them babble on incessantly about themselves, completely self absorbed, zero interest in anything I had to say, thankfully we no longer have any reason to go back there. There are far more interesting places I'd rather be spending my money.

Delighted to see this: was hoping it would be a lot more though

“Four million fewer overseas tourists and 25pc drop in Irish visitors piles pressure on US tourism chiefs”

And Nick Adam’s can go an fck off with his bullsh1t lies:

“The “most egregious misperception” he added, “is that if you travel to the United States, you are likely to be detained, have your phone confiscated, have your social media pored all over, and then you’ll be put on a plane back”.
“That is just totally not true,” he said.

“There is no social media policy in place,” Mr Adams said. “That is not true. I’ve spoken with the Department of Homeland Security. I’ve asked them for the figures.”

https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/there-is-no-social-media-policy-in-place-us-tourism-tsar-launches-charm-offensive-in-ireland-amid-trump-slump-fears/a/156969297.html

I’m actually quite surprised that America is on the charm offensive looking for tourist tax dollars- I mean they have wasted 100s of millions of dollars on the Iran conflict no less elsewhere - all of which were unnecessary and have added to their economic woes with higher prices.

Even leaving aside the poxy politics for a minute, there’s not huge value to be had going to America for a holiday.

Could well be- good point.

At least this regime fears “something” - ie their paymasters

The only way people outside of the US can protest is to boycott all things USA or USA derived and definitely not visit there.

And how are you getting on boycotting all things USA yourself?

What WAS tourism into Germany like at that time out of curiosity? Not asking as a trick question at all. You just put it in my head that the big difference between what you are saying about the USA and what you are saying about Germany - is that I have a general feeling the latter was not a big tourist destination at the time.

The great thing about Google AI is if I wanted to talk to google AI I could :) I come to Boards to talk to real people. Though there are many bots :)

I dunno - I think tourism under the rubric of an international social and information system such as the internet - is a very hard square peg to put into a very very different round hole. If they had the internet back in the times of early WWI and WWII I would have been recommending people go there and report back rather than suggest they boycott the destination.

I am rather biased at the moment though as I am mid way through a USA trip right now and so far it has been one of the top 10 positive experiences of my life. I landed in for the world cup opening Ceremony day and I have been traveling across country ever since doing various things.

I am generally Texas focused on this trip despite my landing and travel zone. But over all my experience on the ground has not been anything like social media or anything else has prepared me for. In fact half the time I felt like I was back home.

A lovely closing sentence which pretty much sums up most of my political opinions :) Expecting any kind of stability in any opinion if clearly folly :)

If someone travel there to see Grand Canyon or some other nice place I don't see why would anyone bother themselves with other country politics. They do have president they elected so its rather naive to think that opinions or decision to not travel of someone who do not live there do actually matter for anyone but that "principled" person.

Absolute majority of people from Ireland who do go visit and enjoy nature or sights or shopping without planning to attend anti government rally will hardly experience any issue from government servants during their trip.

Havent hit that TOO much yet. At least not as bad as "pog" hit me with in clontarf :)

I dont want to go to the US. I'd like to go to Russia and North Korea.

But, your statemnt "I would hope that people intending or thinking about travelling there
would give some thought to the current politics and moral ethos of that
country. "

i don't know wtf you are talking about, the current politics and moral ethos of that country. what does that even mean.

Countries don't have those things.