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President Trump, stop scaring away foreign tourists. Take a lesson from Costa Rica.

En Miami Herald / 1 marzo, 2017

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President Trump, please stick to the more presidential tone of your message to Congress this week and stop scaring away foreign tourists. There are signs that your daily tirades against immigrants and apocalyptic descriptions of America are causing a decline in foreign tourism to New York, Miami and other major U.S. tourism spots.

Trump’s portrayals of an «American carnage,» his calls for «extreme vetting» of foreign visitors, his accusations against Mexicans and Muslims, his effort to impose a travel ban on visitors from seven Muslim-majority countries, his vows to build a border wall and his plans to deport millions of undocumented foreigners — the key messages of his first month in office — are already causing U.S. tourism analysts to talk about a «Trump slump.»

Earlier this week, New York City’s tourism marketing agency, NYC & Company, announced that foreign visitors to the city — which reached 12. 7 million last year — are now projected to decline by about 300,000 this year, which will translate into more than $600 million in lost sales. The agency said the decline will be due to «the recent travel ban and related rhetoric» coming from the White House.

The London-based World Travel and Tourism Council (WTTC) had earlier said that Trump’s travel ban — which was temporarilly knocked down by a court, but made headlines around the world — would hurt the U.S. tourism industry.

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Andres Oppenheimer
Es el editor para América Latina y Columnista de “The Miami Herald,” conductor del programa “Oppenheimer Presenta” por CNN en Español, y autor de siete Best-Sellers. Su columna “El Informe Oppenheimer” es publicada regularmente en más de 60 periódicos de todo el mundo, incluidos “The Miami Herald” de EEUU, La Nación de Argentina, El Mercurio de Chile, El Comercio de Perú, y Reforma de México.




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