Disney exec, ‘Please fix this’: Decline in foreign visitors to the US has cost the country about a quarter of a million jobs.

While visitation to the U.S. doesn’t feel like an export business, in essence, it is. We export the promise our destinations offer as brands, or a means of encouraging people to come to our country, whether they wish to visit Disneyland, see our nation’s capital, or attend one of our universities.
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Since 2001, foreign visitor arrivals have dropped off substantially. That’s due both to the fact that the very process of visiting the U.S. makes many overseas visitors feel unwelcome by the time they get here and because competition from foreign travel destinations has, in the meantime, increased significantly.