Independent, UK- International travel to the US dropped 6.5 per cent in the eight days following the president’s proposed travel ban
on January 27 when compared to the same period in 2016, according to
travel data company ForwardKeys. Online searches for flights to America
also dropped by 17 per cent the same week, said flight app Hopper. And
the president of Dubai-based airline Emirates, Sir Tim Clark, confirmed
in March that the travel ban, which sought to stop nationals from seven
mainly Muslim countries from travelling to the US, immediately triggered
a drop in bookings from Dubai by over a third.
All this has resulted in an estimated loss of $185 million in
business travel bookings from January 28 to February 4, as calculated by
the Global Business Travel Association. The drop-off in tourism is
predicted to result in 4.3 million fewer visitors this year, which adds
up to a staggering loss of $7.4 billion in revenue for the US.
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