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> The US. remain as unwelcoming to visitors as they have been since 2001

Strangely the stats don't back your assertion. Wouldn't being "unwelcoming since 2001" result in a decrease in travel?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tourism_in_the_United_States#V...

I’d look for a change in slope. A permanent change that adversely affected tourism would decrease the slope, but maybe not so much as to make it negative.

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/international-tourist-tri...

Between 1995 and 2015 (capturing data before and after 2001) the US's change in tourism increased at a faster rate than France, Italy, Greece, Germany, Austria, and the UK. Spain may have increased at a slightly faster pace, but it's close.

This is meaningless without a denominator. How much has international tourism increased in those years? What percentage of international tourists visited the US before and after 2001?

So it wasn't so bad that the number of people visiting the US decreased, but it was bad enough that it didn't increase as quickly as other places?

Anyways, let's compare to more "welcoming" places. This shows the slope of the data, so it's pretty easy to compare the changes between countries.

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/international-tourist-tri...

If you have data that shows otherwise, feel free to share it.

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