The French Hotels Group (Acor SA) has warned of the decrease in pre -reservations from Europe to the United States by 25% this summer, as the uprooted travelers of US President Donald Trump’s campaign and its procedures are directed especially towards foreign immigrants to other tourist areas.
The CEO of the company, Sebastian Bazan, said today, Tuesday, in an interview with Bloomberg TV channel, that the company is witnessing a “remarkable slowdown” across the Atlantic Ocean, adding that this decrease represents an acceleration of a decrease of 18-20% in the first 90 days of the year.
Alternative
Bazan indicated that travelers choose to visit places such as Canada, South America and Egypt instead of the United States.
“Going to an unknown destination may be worrying,” Bazan added.
Although cases of detention of people on the border are still rare at the present time, it has created a “state of dissatisfaction” that has begun to appear in the reservation directions.
Traveling across the Atlantic Ocean has always been a basic pillar of airlines and tourism, as it is one of the most profitable paths in the world, and now, there are an increasing number of companies that warn that this path has been under pressure, as American tourists reduce their expenses and avoid Europe, and Europeans avoid the United States for political reasons.
While European airlines executive officials stated last week that there is no change in demand currently via the North Atlantic Corridor, Virgin Atlantic Airwiz, the US Ltd., raised the alarm this week about the weakness of travel to Britain recently.
This has caused a decrease in the shares of the airlines through Atlantic, such as “IGSA”, the parent company of the British Airlines.
Canada
On Monday, Canada Airlines announced that flight reservations crossing the Canadian and American cities decreased 10% during the period from April to September, as Canadians responded to the intense trade war to avoid flights in the south.
This shift comes within the framework of a broader boycott of American products in response to the customs duties imposed by Trump and his repeated statements that he believed Canada should be part of the United States.
At the end of last month, a report in the New York Times stated that US President Donald Trump’s insistence on continuing policies exposing the European economy pushing more Europeans to boycott American goods to express their deep frustration with the American administration’s dealings with the old allies.
The newspaper quoted Bo Albertos, the Danish, who runs a group of 90,000 members on Facebook calling for boycotting American products, as saying, “I had a sense of impotence, and therefore we now feel that we do something. Our actions stem from our frustration. The strongest momentum behind such consumer practices apparently focuses in countries that Trump has directly concentrated, such as Denmark that threatened By grabbing its land (Greenland) and Canada, which he said repeatedly, it should be the No. 51 of the United States.
In a Swedish group on Facebook, its members are 80,000, users are wondering about instructions for buying laptops, dog foods, non -American -made toothpaste products, and members of a French group praising the chaos cleansing and European smartphones, according to the newspaper.
Moreover, these pages are filled with detailed discussions on the identity of American goods and how Coca -Cola products can be classified in Britain, or ice cream (Ben and Jerez) currently owned by the British company Unilever.
