Travel to US down 6.5% after Trump travel ban
United States
Washington – Arab Today
Travel bookings to the United States fell 6.5 percent in late January compared to last year in the wake of President Donald Trump's travel ban, according to a report Wednesday.
The travel restrictions apparently deterred travelers from outside the seven Muslim-majority countries hit by the ban, according to data from ForwardKeys, a travel analysis firm.
The executive order, signed January 27 and suspended by the courts since February 3, blocked the arrival of travelers.and refugees from Iran, Iraq, Yemen, Syria, Libya, Somalia and Sudan.
Arrivals from those countries from January 28 to February 4 were down 80 percent from the same period of 2016, the report said.
But bookings from Western Europe and the Asia Pacific region each fell about 14 percent, while those from Northern Europe were down 6.6 percent. (The data excludes China and Hong Kong due to the Chinese New Year holiday impact.)
"The data forces a compelling conclusion that Donald Trump's travel ban immediately caused a significant drop in bookings to the USA and an immediate impact on future travel," ForwardKeys CEO Olivier Jager said in the report. ---Indiana Times
Source :NNA
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