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Allegedly the biggest package tour operator in the UK has seen a 72% drop in holidays to the US for 2026.
by onion2k 8mo ago
Allegedly the biggest package tour operator in the UK has seen a 72% drop in holidays to the US for 2026.
- cjrp 8mo agoThe number of promotional emails I get from Virgin and British Airways, offering pretty big discounts for US destinations, suggests this is true.
- Luc 8mo agoThat can't be right, the real figure is probably closer to 7%.
- jazzypants 8mo agoLOL. Why not? I wouldn't want to travel here. We're arresting people off the streets for no reason. It's fucking horrible.
- onion2k 8mo agoI don't think it's entirely due to US politics. The strength of the dollar against the pound, the perception of the US as not being a fashionable place to go, the fact that most news about the US in the UK media is either war, Epstein, or ICE, measured against some very competitive offers for other destinations that don't have those problems, makes me believe it's certainly a high percentage. FWIW in my teams (approx. 100 people, all in the UK) I can only think of one person who travelled to the US in the last year, and that was a trip to Disney they'd had booked in for a while. The rest have all been going to southern Europe, Japan etc.
- Luc 8mo ago72% is just not a believable figure. I assume we're talking about TUI here, and they haven't announced anything about this 72% as far as I can tell.
- onion2k 8mo agoTUI is German rather than UK-based, and they're not a package operator (although they do own several.)
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- captainbland 8mo agoOn top of the stringent border checks and Minneapolis, Brits are now seeing things like this and thinking twice: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/21/karen-newton-valid-visa-detained-ice https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/21/karen-newton...
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