Travel disruptions fueled by Trump policies may culminate at peak summer season

Washington – Under normal circumstances, the Trump administration invited its travel industry managers to the White House in May for a meeting on federal plans for the 2026 World Cup, which is an event that will attract a major international tourism to the USA to the USA. It was a pleasant meeting for an industry who wanted to take advantage of a rare opportunity and capture tourism dollars by President Trump and his team.

At least welcome to Vice President JD Vance He broke a joke.

“We will have visitors from nearly 100 countries – we want them to come, we want them to celebrate, we want them to watch the games. But when the time is over, they will have to go home.

Vance’s lyrics were taken at Jest, while the Trump period fell straight into a room full of experts who were more sharply aware of the difficulties faced by travel.

A participant attending the meeting gave The Times anonymously to speak sincerely.

The stories are located in the media abroad, and causing the best dollar to spend the best dollar among international tourists. Irregular tariff policies from the White House shook the consumer trust that experts say they said they were watching reliably with optional expenditures on travel. And when a series of fear in US aviation, the national park service and the National Weather Service, the planning trips to the country’s best destinations made less reliable.

In California, which is the number 1 tourism center of the country, international visits are expected to decrease by 9.2% throughout the year and international expenditures are expected to decrease by 4.2% Published last month By visiting California and the Tourism Economy.

Visit California’s president and general manager Caroline Betketa ​​told Times to Times, one of the most popular attraction centers in the country, Yosemite National Park, reported that the reservations reported “50% commemoration day weekend”.

The narratives of travel deductions under the Trump administration paused not only to US officials and industrial experts with the emergency economic results of a slower summer season, but with the expectations of anemic participation in the World Cup games next year, and beyond for the Olympics in Los Angeles in 2028.

“Consumer trust is absolutely important,” said Geoff Freeman, President and General Manager of US Travel Assn. “It creates uncertainty to some extent.”

‘People should plan in advance’

Unlike most of the rest of the country, California is particularly sensitive to changing the tendencies between tourists from Asia, where tourism has not yet recovered from Covid-19 pandema as well as in America and Europe. Freeman said that commercial flight restrictions on the Russian airspace and the power of the US dollar do not help.

On the other hand, California benefits from a tourism industry that is more based on domestic travelers, which are the source of 80% of the tourism dollars spent in the state.

“There is no question that there are widespread perceptions of impact on travel experience, from reports about personnel deductions to the travel experience on the border arrests. “For example, interruptions in the National Park Service do not affect the privilege of the park-and these companies are carrying out most of the services facing visitors such as accommodation, food, service and much more.

However, the National Parks Conservation Assn. Senior Visit Program Manager Cassidy Jones said that the deductions of the parks are concrete and that the visitors would directly affect the experience of the visitors in the coming months, and that the leadership at the Ministry of Interior would directly affect despite their efforts on the cracks on the cracks.

“Less entrance doors may be open, Jones Jones said. “People should be planned in advance and remember to be useful park visitors. Get optional service. Some facilities may be closed at the time you do not expect, because there are no staff to keep them open. Toilets may not be incompatible in cold places.”

In April, the internal secretary Doug Burgum issued an order that led the national parks that the national parks were “open and accessible ında in the summer season, because the personnel interruptions applied by the administration may become apparent because the fears are growing. Nevertheless, the White House was cut and recruitment, usually for Park Rangers, which usually began in Christmas, seasonal recruitment and training cadence seriously broke the cadence, he said.

“Some parks may not feel as much changes, but there are too many work in the background, Jones Jones added Jones. “The order is basically, although parks have experienced destructive personnel cuts, it should look open to a public appearance that everything is as usual.

Flight deductions are expected

Twenty years ago, it was roughly half of the flight delays, the uncertainty on the weather – a number that has fallen to 33% in recent years thanks to its forecasting quality in recent years. Rick Spinrad, who served as the ruler of the National Ocean and the Atmosphere Administration under the direction of President Biden, said that this progress begins to reversed because of the widespread interruptions in the ability, and not later, not later, but later by travelers.

Trump’s Government Productivity Program, known as Doge, has eliminated hundreds of positions in Noaa, including the National Weather Service, and proposes a 25% deduction in the agency’s budget.

“In the short term, this summer, people can see the degradation of services while people are traveling longer. More delayed flights, you can see more flights by air,” he said.

However, Spinrad’s concern is that the interruptions in Noaa will soon be felt deeper among the Emergency Managers, Local Transportation Departments and Public Health Centers relying on reliable estimates to maust their work.

“I think what we’re going to see is the erosion of Noaa’s ability to serve the degree of people accustomed to,” he said.

Spinrad visited Southern California in late May and was surprised by the number of people who were concerned about the agency’s ability to continue to predict atmospheric river events with all the effects of the agency’s public security, reservoir operations and hydro power. These estimates are largely based on the work of a satellite operation facility encouraged by the Trump administration.

And in January, the National Weather Service cuts 30 of the agency’s 122 air estimation offices without meteorologists and the technicians of the agency’s ability to predict phenomena such as the main winds of Santa, which fueling destructive fires in Los Angeles in January.

Orum I just know that it will be broken by definition. Everything will be broken, ”Spinrad added. “Noaa’s predictive skills will be broken as a result of these interruptions.”

Mark Spalding, President of the Ocean Foundation, warned that the aviation industry will soon encounter disruptions as Noaa’s capabilities continue to decrease.

“This summer we will see effects, because too many people fired and closed too much activity, Sp said Spalding.

“There are many services that many people trust by Noaa – Weather prediction, ocean observation, tsunami early warning, hurricane center watching,” he said. “This summer there is a lot that can be impressed by the sudden loss of personnel there, which can be affected in such a way that we see it under air traffic control.”

Nevertheless, Freeman from the US Travel Assn expressed optimism for the US tourism sector and said that he and his colleagues were “regular communication üzerinde on the winds opposite the Trump administration and the multitrillion dollar industry.

“There is no difficulty in the travel industry,” he said. “I think the picture for travel right now is uncertain.”

“There is an opportunity on the other side for every difficulty you see,” he added.