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China Poised to Become Top Tourism Economy as Foreigners Skip US (www.bloomberg.com)

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The Chinese travel and tourism economy grew 9.9% last year, more than twice the global rate and much faster than the 0.9% pace registered by the US, according to new data by the World Travel & Tourism Council, a trade group, and lead research partner Chase Travel.

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[–] Arancello@aussie.zone 3 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Well duh. When mercans threaten to jail tourists and attack other countries including europe, Canada, Mexico, Cuba, Venezuela, Iran, the decision to skip tourism in the country where everyone has and threatens to use a gun is entirely rational. The next industry to experience a boycott will be mercan streaming and cloud tech companies. In my business, with about 5,000 employees, we have a stated plan to get off Amazon, Google and Microsoft moving to non american suppliers. we are even preferencing chinese over american now. Once we move the business will be out of reach of american bullshit for good.

[–] ramble81@lemmy.zip 2 points 33 minutes ago

Ironically I think that about China. I could still say “Fuck the US and Trump” here relatively easily. If were to say “Fuck China and Xi” there’s a relatively good chance I could get disappeared.

I’d love to go back to Hong Kong for example, it’s one of my favorite places in the world, but after what happened there, frankly I’m afraid unless I was on my absolute best behavior.