China Poised to Become Top Tourism Economy as Foreigners Skip US
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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This, somehow, will be Biden's fault.
Also, the Sunshine State (Florida) is going to get destroyed.
Sunshine state is apparently teetering towards depression in large part because of 50% fall in ‘snowbird’ tourists from Canada.
It takes a lot of gas to make the trek from Toronto to the Keys in an RV. /s
That’s hardly why. More like many Canadians don’t want to go and visit/financially support an actively hostile country with a leader that repeatedly talks about annexing them.
People here going to US to snowbird are kind of considered some low end tier of traitor by many, in fact.
I was making a joke about gas prices, but point taken.
The Brightline isn't terrible, its cheaper than driving.
I mean, considering the political climate there… it’s very karmic
Does anyone else ever remember the movie Looper, where Bruce Willis was like 'no, you dont want to learn French... Trust me, you want to learn Chinese'
I do sometimes
My luck,I’d spend years learning Cantonese and Mandarin become the dominant one
Hey you could still use it in Guangdong+Hong Kong, if you don't mind getting melted in the miserable heat and humidity.
Firefly got it right
how the fuck did the US tourism industry even grow :(
"See the Great Wall! Beat up some Tibetans! Taste the crunchy city air!"
I've been to China, I respect many aspects of Chinese culture and I get on well with the people there, but regarding the systems, I'm not sure lawful evil is prefereable to chaotic evil. If I were to bet on who's going to take out the trash first, I'd say it'll be the US.
I don't blame them.
Of course white dudes wanna enjoy their white privilage that even Local Chinese Citizens don't have
Exhibit A: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_monkey (this is not exactly "tourist" but the point remains)
Edit: Lmao r/fragilewhiteredditors leaking into Lemmy 🤣
I fail to see what this has to do with visiting a couple of cities for a week or two as a tourist. If your argument is that a person cannot come from a country that has more rights or better wealth than another country, the dynamics to visiting anywhere get really weird.
I live near China but don't go there because I don't like the government. However, I'd love to see many archeological sites like Xi An and other places.
Xi'an is cool. Really good food, especially if you get tired of pork.
Wait, so tourism counts as white privilege to you?
Wow, I'll make sure I remind the 40 million annual Chinese people leaving the country on vacation that they are enjoying white privilege.