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Look at it this way: the United States is such a gigantic territory with a broad spectrum of different peoples and cultures. It’s like asking if Africans are w
by AStonesThrow 2y ago
Look at it this way: the United States is such a gigantic territory with a broad spectrum of different peoples and cultures.
It’s like asking if Africans are welcome, or are Asians welcome?
I think any tourism or hospitality industry will welcome anybody who is polite, courteous and spends money. That’s the bottom line, literally. Bonus: most Americans understand English and spend $USD!
Anyone who will check into a hotel, spend money on taxis, dining, and entertainment, doesn’t get into illegal shit, and purchases souvenirs? That’s a welcome tourist.
Of course, that’s assuming that Americans travel for conventional tourism. If you’re going to travel for a protest, or to smuggle drugs, or to advance some political agenda, then that’s not really tourism. Or if you’re a member of a women’s basketball team and you’re casually smuggling marijuana... all bets are off.
- basisword 2y ago>> most Americans understand English and spend $USD! Please don't try to spend USD in Europe...
- ahoka 2y agoProbably still works in the Balkan.
- dtagames 2y agoAmericans think of it this way because our bank statements will show the USD amount, no matter where we buy things. And to us, it is "spending USD" because that's what we had to earn.
- AStonesThrow 2y agoTechnically we are spending USD, if we show up somewhere without already having converted our currency. Personally I purchased a Travelex prepaid debit card ahead of time, with Euros ready to spend in Catalonia, but it was reloadable, and I also needed to do some snap ATM conversions to £ Sterling in London. Most tourists head to an exchange window, turn their USD into the local currency, and therefore those exchanges have got our genuine Benjamins to do whatever with. And USD is highly-favored, highly-negotiable money everywhere in the world, as of April 2025 anyway.
- rsynnott 2y ago> Most tourists head to an exchange window, turn their USD into the local currency, and therefore those exchanges have got our genuine Benjamins to do whatever with. … Wait, really, in 2025? You’d likely be far cheaper using an ATM (tip: get a Wise or neobank account; they’ll generally give better rates on this. Revolut FX is _free_ except on weekends). Physical currency exchange has never been cheap, but these days it’s a serious ripoff. > And USD is highly-favored, highly-negotiable money everywhere in the world, as of April 2025 anyway. It fell 2.5% vs the Euro yesterday. Which is going to make the physical currency places into even more of a ripoff, because they’re going to have to significantly increase their risk premium; it has become rather volatile over the last month.
- basisword 2y agoThis sounds like travel in the 90's. These days you pay with a debit card or credit card and get cash from an ATM when needed. I can't remember the last time I actually exchanged cash in one currency for cash in another.
- rsynnott 2y agoI saw someone try to do this in Dublin a while back. Absolutely baffling; I assume they’d never been out of the US before.
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