Anyone cancelling their trips/holidays to USA

[Petuniaspetal]

Have to be honest since trump won i wasn't going anyway. But anyone cancelling or going elsewhere?
I have a big birthday this year, I would go to the garbage dump rather than support America,/musk in any way. I know therwmis at least half of America that doesn't.support this shxt and for them I am sorry but for the republicans too spineless and self interested to resist their dictator.trump...not one iota of sympathy for the rising prices loss of Medicaid or medicare.

YABU ..to cancel/Not go
YANBU...wouldn't touch it with a bargepole

Not going but because we can’t afford it. Nothing to do Trump. I probably wouldn’t move over there to work long term though, but would definitely go for a holiday.

That's a real pity because the fall leaves are incredible. Such a shame to miss out on an amazing country because of politics.

But the East Coast is famously progressive, left-wing, and anti-Trump.

Exactly. The culture is so rich and so varied. There's the music scene in Nashville, the food scene in New Orleans, San Antonio in Texas is like an ancient part of Mexico, and then you have places that are totally different from those like New York.

YANBU. I certainly have no interest in going either. My friend is married to an American and he refuses to go home whilst Trump is in power.

Boycotts only work if enough people get on board at the same time.

the minuscule number of MNers saying they won't book a holiday to US now is not going to have the slightest effect on the US economy.

sanctions do work, they have a stranglehold on a country's economy, because the scale of impact is so great - so the sanctions on Russia are now really starting to hurt. The oligarchs having travel bans and having their assets frozen didn't feel anything to begin with but they are now. Sanctions and freezes on supply chains, refusals to trade or supply goods to a country work because it's done at a systematic level.

a few thousand people saying on social media that they will go to Europe on holiday instead of US is like cutting off your nose to spite your face. It doesn't make the slightest difference, it harms the boycotter not the US. In fact Trump is more than likely to do something deliberately nasty, spiteful and disproportionate as a direct response to the few thousand people doing that, because he's powerful and unpredictable and likes to flex his muscles to show how important he is,

this will make a difference - but it will take time

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/uk-announces-largest-sanctions-package-against-russia-since-2022

I burst out laughing at this. You're not a US citizen presumably, so you don't have a vote, and therefore you not holidaying there won't change anything! You'll just be missing out.

In terms of the damage it’ll cause, what is happening in the UK is far worse than the US. Labour are in the process of destroying the UK.

FYI folks, Boston is famously ultra-blue. That is, Democrat. And it's a gorgeous, gorgeous city, very walkable. And completely anti-Trump and pro-women's rights. Lots of interesting things to see and do. And its history is irrevocably tied to the UK, being that it's the place where the War of Independence started. You can see the spot where the first shot was fired in the fight to take American back from the British, and there are lots of other historical sites, too. Great for older kids, especially the Tea Party museum. There's also a Children's Museum, a truly amazing aquarium with IMAX cinema next to it showing nature/marine programmes, and so much more.

A good place to visit if you want to holiday in the US guilt-free!

Top travel tip: The Holiday Inns in the Chelsea/Revere area are short Uber rides from the city, about 15 mins, very nice and a fraction of the price of city hotels. They're under Boston Logan hotels, even though they're outside a bit. We stayed in this one, and it was fab, so clean.

www.ihg.com/holidayinn/hotels/us/en/chelsea/bosch/hoteldetail

So you’ll spend your money and live it up in a country run by vicious criminal drug cartels with one of the highest rates of Femicide in the world instead? Ok then 🤔

It isn't about "which country is the nicest", it's about which are hostile to the UK and our Allies.

Giving money to the US seemingly now means funding an adversary.

(And a double whammy, for me, as a Brit living in Canada).

You would risk your own livelihood because of the politics of a country in which you don't have a vote, don't live in, and can't influence. Sorry but that's crazy.

Sorry, I know that pockets of the US and many of its people are wonderful, but supporting the US economy is contary to national security interests.

No American TV series or films for you, then, and definitely no Coke or Levi's or American toys if you have kids. Barbie, Disney, Hot Wheels - all banned!

Boycotts absolutely make a difference. It looks like the Canadian boycotts of US as a travel destination will cost the US economy several billion dollars (the US Travel Association say a 10% reduction would cause a $2.1bn drop, and polling shows that just under 50% of Canadians have either cancelled or will be delaying any plans to visit the US.

Canada is the top source of tourists to the US. Second is Mexico (where one would think there is also a strong boycott movement) and the UK is third.

Boycotts of travel, and people avoiding buying US products and services where possible, could cause immense damage to the US economy, and put significant pressure on Trump.

I think that might be the hardest I've ever shrugged.

So Mexico with its deep corruption, vicious drug related violence and massively high rates of sexual and murderous violence against women and girls is a more ethical holiday choice than the US right now? Ok. I hope that poster chooses the area she goes to carefully and goes to the part they purposely keep safe for the tourists (not their own people) so they can keep pulling in that tourist 💵 💵 💵

I’m American, from the Bay Area. It’s hard to avoid going because my mum has health conditions that make travel difficult and we have young DC. But it does make me nervous, despite only spending time in deeply blue places. I feel like things have shifted and it all feels sort of dangerous somehow. My husband is black British, our children are mixed, I feel much safer here than I do back home sadly.

I also worry more about money —after last night’s attack on Zelenskyy and seeing that an actual coup is happening in the US, it makes me feel like war and economic tough times are not unlikely. Spending on a trip to the US feels a bit profligate honestly.

And I hope you don't use Amazon, Apple, Starbucks, or McDonald's, as well! Do you have an Amazon account? Have you cancelled it? And I hope you're not using Microsoft, Google, Netflix, or Uber. Googling anything would be beyond the pale. If you have a Yahoo, AOL, or Gmail account, you'll need to cancel those, and Facebook also.

It's the bar and restaurant servers on $2 per hour basic wage that will suffer. Trump won't care if people boycott. He's about to get his paws on Ukraine's minerals, after all. 😠

Plus, the US economy isn't dependent on foreign visitors. It's less 2.97% of GDP. The US is a very rich country and a tiny amount of people not coming will make no difference at all, so you might as well go there and enjoy all the incredible things it has to offer.

This .
The hysteria is ridiculous

I've heard the phrase "Trump derangement syndrome" being thrown around and dismissed it as right wing propaganda but I've got to say it's starting to make sense after reading a few threads on here lately.

People talking like he is personally lurking round every corner waiting to touch them up. It's bizarre and reeks of overreaction.

The people of America are not any different than they were 6 months ago. They didn't all morph into Trump clones the minute he won or was inaugurated. There's no reason to believe America is any more dangerous to visit now than it was already.

It won't. All foreign visitors to the US are responsible for just 2.97% of its GDP. The US economy is not dependent on the travel sector. It has vast wealth. And most potential visitors are not going to cancel, anyway. I agree with another poster who says that it's cutting off your nose to spite your face. I deplore Trump but I still love the State deeply. It's more than its politics.

Edit: Just realised I already said that to you, sorry!

Completely agree.

Exactly - thank you. And why make low-paid servers and other service workers suffer. Those are the people who will feel it.