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The article neglects to mention the huge drop in international visits to the U.S. in recent years. Quoting a USA Today article from last week:

U.S. visits as a portion of total global travel fell to 11.7% last year from a high of 13.7% in 2015, according to the travel group and Oxford Economics. That has resulted in losses to the U.S. economy of 14 million international visitors, $59 billion in traveler spending and 120,000 U.S. jobs.

Source: https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2019/08/09/travel-inter...

I know Disneyland and Disneyworld have traditionally been popular destinations for foreign tourists; it's reasonable to assume that if overall international travel is down the number of foreign visitors to the parks is also down, even before factoring in the high prices everyone has to pay to get into the parks.

parent ilamont 7 years ago

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