Economy Just How bad is Trump's 2nd Presidency for US Tourism?

[Deorum]

Trump really screwed up with the cuts to National Park funding, especially since he freakin SIGNED the Great American Outdoors Act into law!

President Trump signed the Great American Outdoors Act into Law | Indian Affairs

WASHINGTON – Today, President Donald J. Trump signed the Great American Outdoors Act into law, which will significantly help address the historically underfunded, multi-billion-dollar deferred maintenance backlog at our national parks and public lands.

www.bia.gov

This law is supposed to guarantee permanent federal funding for our national parks. America and Americans love our national parks. and im sure many folks from other countries around the world have enjoyed them too. if you take funding away from them, thats one of the biggest fuckups you can make as a president. especially with someone who has an ego like Trump; he'd be reneging on his own promises.

i hope within the next few months his cabinet slows down and re-assesses how haphazardly they're culling stuff.

Law Thread 'Great American Outdoors Act'

Aug 15, 2024

Is there any chance this can get a nice re-up injection with some executive branch insistence in 2025 for FY26? Does anyone oppose doing so? The GAOA was probably my single favorite piece of legislation passed during the DJT era. The LWCF now has a perpetual source of funding, and that's great. However, the NPS on the whole has long been subject to severe constraints where annual budgetary appropriations are concerned. This is despite the fact that the natural and cultural sites comprising our park system are considered to be a collective national treasure, with the agency itself rated...

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Daines' bipartisan bill seeks reauthorization of fund to address national park maintenance backlog • Daily Montanan

U.S. Sen. Steve Daines on Thursday introduced a bill with bipartisan support that seeks to reauthorize for another eight years a program to address billions in overdue maintenance at national parks, increase program funding from the federal government, and seeks to increase the amount of public...

dailymontanan.com

U.S. Sen. Steve Daines (R-MT) on Thursday introduced a bill with bipartisan support that seeks to reauthorize a program to address billions in overdue maintenance at national parks, increase program funding from the federal government, and seeks to increase the amount of public donations supporting those projects.

The act would for keep the program running for another eight years.

Called the “America the Beautiful Act,” the bill would build upon parts of the bipartisan Great American Outdoors Act signed in 2020 under President Donald Trump, which authorized up to $6.5 billion in funding during the course of five years for the National Parks and Public Legacy Restoration Fund through fiscal year 2025. Since 2020, more than $4 billion has been committed from the fund to projects across the country.

Daines, a Republican, led introduction of the bill Thursday alongside Sens. Angus King, I-Maine, Kevin Cramer, R-North Dakota, and Mark Warner, D-Virginia. He said in a statement the bill would continue to address a backlog of maintenance projects on certain public lands and at national parks, including Yellowstone and Glacier.

“Our country is home to incredible national parks and public lands – that’s what makes us America the beautiful. I’ll always fight to protect our parks and work to make sure we’re managing our public lands as effectively as possible,” Daines said in a statement.

Lawmakers working on Great American Outdoors Act renewal

The law has wide bipartisan support, though one prominent Senate Republican could be a hurdle.

www.eenews.net

Top senators have begun working on reauthorizing the Great American Outdoors Act, a sweeping bill passed during President Donald Trump’s first term to fund maintenance projects at the nation’s national parks.

The law is set to run out of funding in mid-2025, while the deferred maintenance backlog at the Park Service it was intended to address continues to grow. When the bill was signed in 2020, the backlog was at roughly $17 billion, adjusted for inflation. According to the latest figures from fiscal year 2023, that figure has now grown to $23 billion.

That’s despite yearly infusions of $1.9 billion from the law into the Legacy Restoration Fund, which was created by the act to address the deferred maintenance backlog. The bill was passed with an overwhelmingly bipartisan vote in 2020 and signed into law by Trump, who has since returned to the White House.

 

[ocfightfan]

It's not Trump that is the problem. It's his critics lying about him and about America. There is not anything that Trump has done to make America a less attractive tourist destination. A proper tourist is going to have a tourist visa and there is no way ICE is going to snatch them out of their hotel room. So clearly it's leftist media fearmongering about Trump.

 

[Deorum]

It will literally be exactly the same as if Harris won. Literally nothing is different.

 

[Rob Battisti]

Man, she really faded into Bolivia didn’t see?

 

[Deorum]

Man, she really faded into Bolivia didn’t see?

It's almost as if she never was. The Biden Admin itself feels like years ago already, and it's only been 70 days FFS. Harris could resurface if she makes a run for California's 2026 gubernatorial race, though.

 

[Deorum]

What really pisses me off is the park rangers that got canned. Good time to be a serial killer but bad time if you want to take the family to visit a Nat'l park.

@Deorum

Dems should really take more initiative on such an easy slam dunk W. They're big on climate change and environmental regulations, but content with the status quo on public lands and the agencies who manage them. The regs are indirectly beneficial to ecosystems and endangered species but somewhat redundant when virtually all forms of commercial and industrial development are prohibited in wilderness areas and national parks anyway.

A lot has been made over the 1,000 probationary NPS rangers cut by DOGE (since overturned by a federal judge), but the starvation diet goes back at least 15 years across Dem & GOP admins alike with a 20% reduction in staff since 2010. Given the enormous amount of spending and legislation passed during Biden's term (American Rescue Plan, Inflation Reduction Act, CHIPS & Science Act), they could've easily knocked out the deferred maintenance log and it wouldn't of even been a drop in the bucket.

 

[Neph]

It's not Trump that is the problem. It's his critics lying about him and about America. There is not anything that Trump has done to make America a less attractive tourist destination. A proper tourist is going to have a tourist visa and there is no way ICE is going to snatch them out of their hotel room. So clearly it's leftist media fearmongering about Trump.

As a foreigner who's chosen to go to Canada now instead of the US, I can confirm you are wrong.

 

[Squarechoke]

It's not Trump that is the problem. It's his critics lying about him and about America. There is not anything that Trump has done to make America a less attractive tourist destination. A proper tourist is going to have a tourist visa and there is no way ICE is going to snatch them out of their hotel room. So clearly it's leftist media fearmongering about Trump.

Of course Trump has made the US less attractive for tourists. Not because people are afraid of things happening to them but because people now view the US in a negative light regarding trade and are less interested in dealing with them. To what extent this goes is hard to say but the sentiment is there to a degree that it becomes false to say that Trump hasn't done anything to make the US less attractive.

 

[Deorum]

Of course Trump has made the US less attractive for tourists. Not because people are afraid of things happening to them but because people now view the US in a negative light regarding trade and are less interested in dealing with them. To what extent this goes is hard to say but the sentiment is there to a degree that it becomes false to say that Trump hasn't done anything to make the US less attractive.

I'm going to be spending around six weeks at one of the aforementioned most popular tourist destinations in the country this summer. It'll be interesting to see not just the crowd sizes but how the ethnic and national demographics are comprised, both on the main hub and remote alternative. The latter is ordinarily around one-third state locals, with the vast majority of the rest being foreign adventurers (I won't call them "tourists") who did their research. It's always pleasant to meet and mingle with them or give recommendations, regardless of how brief the interactions are.

 

[Crazy Source]

I'm going to be spending around six weeks at one of the aforementioned most popular tourist destinations in the country this summer. It'll be interesting to see not just the crowd sizes but how the ethnic and national demographics are comprised, both on the main hub and remote alternative. The latter is ordinarily around one-third state locals, with the vast majority of the rest being foreign adventurers (I won't call them "tourists") who did their research. It's always pleasant to meet and mingle with them or give recommendations, regardless of how brief the interactions are.

I like your style, but you live a life that is totally above the average person and think that is the norm. It ain't.

 

[Sinister]

Vegas has laid off thousands of workers from the Casinos.

 

[freakroor]

I live just outside Yosemite Nat'l Park and it's been pretty dead here for the past year, but especially so in the last couple months. Lots of friends who own restaurants and short-term rentals say they have never seen it slower than this.

 

[Bathwater]

My woman after 2 minutes of banging.

Same dead look in her eyes, too.

 

[Deorum]

My woman after 2 minutes of banging.

Same dead look in her eyes, too.

I like your style, but you live a life that is totally above the average person and think that is the norm. It ain't.

Nah, I regularly recognize how abnormal it is. When the single biggest concern you have is the federal government potentially selling off parcels of public land that nobody has ever heard of or even knows exists (much less set foot on), then life is pretty damn good. Of course, that isn't really the point and it's far more to do with insidious precedent, but no matter.

 

[Crazy Source]

Nah, I regularly recognize how abnormal it is. When the single biggest concern you have is the federal government potentially selling off parcels of public land that nobody has ever heard of or even knows exists (much less set foot on), then life is pretty damn good. Of course, that isn't really the point and it's far more to do with insidious precedent, but no matter.

Soft hug

 

[Deorum]

I live just outside Yosemite Nat'l Park and it's been pretty dead here for the past year, but especially so in the last couple months. Lots of friends who own restaurants and short-term rentals say they have never seen it slower than this.

I actually hope Aramark has a disastrous year, fuck them. They make as good a case as anyone for the removal of privately run concessions within national parks. Leave the hospitality to the gateway towns in Mariposa and Madera counties where there is actually competition and incentive to provide decent services without the degradation.

 

[freakroor]

I actually hope Aramark has a disastrous year, fuck them. They make as good a case as anyone for the removal of privately run concessions within national parks. Leave the hospitality to the gateway towns in Mariposa and Madera counties where there is actually competition and incentive to provide decent services without the degradation.

im not sure what you are advocating for here, or how it relates to the thread topic..

 

[TankAbbott4Eva]

Depends how the US dollar goes i reckon

 

[Deorum]

A year ago, lol.

Why the US is the top country for tourism in 2024

A new report published by the World Economic Forum highlights the nation's promotion of natural and cultural resources and commitment to sustainability and tourism.

www.bbc.com

 

[Deorum]

Soft hug

The location also got a lot to do with it, and the overwhelming vast majority of the American population doesn't live in the West, where 92% of public land exists. I've stressed this many times, but people just can not comprehend what having open access to wide open spaces and such vast wilderness is like, or the pressure relief valve it provides from the grind of daily life as a cog in the labor input machine. Almost everything east of the Rockies is either heavily developed or privatized, and it sucks ass.