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International arrivals to U.S. continue decline
Trump policies trip up tourism
The latest government statistics on international arrivals to the U.S. show they continued to slide through last summer.
Nonresident international visitors to the U.S. decreased more than 1 percent in August 2017 compared with August 2016.
The U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Travel and Tourism Office released the data.
Visitors from Mexico were down more than 2 percent in August 2017 compared with August 2016.
Canadians provided a bright spot: up nearly 4 percent, while visitors from other countries were down nearly 4 percent.
Nonresident international arrivals totaled nearly 49 million January through August 2017, an overall decrease of nearly 4 percent compared with the first eight months of 2016.
The U.S. travel industry has complained that the Trump administration’s anti-immigrant policies and anti-foreigner rhetoric are dampening tourism.
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