...travel to the worlds tourism hotspots?

Why is that?

Can we get some statistics on such phenomena from somewhere to put in this here little thread pre and post 9-11 perhaps???

Where could such stats and/or visual aids be found one wonders out loud???

Maybe it hasn't much to do with 9-11, although a side-effect of that event was a 2007 US government initiative that required US citizens to have a passport in order to travel to western hemisphere countries (including Canada, or Mexico). Previously, common identification such as a drivers license was sufficient to be able to re-enter the US.

More importantly, in trade-weighted terms, a US dollar today is only worth 74 cents in foreign currency compared with its value in 2000 (and only 66 cents compared with its value in 1985). In fact it buys less foreign currency today than it has at any time in the last 40 years.

Hence this, plus the various fuel surcharges that airlines have applied in recent years, make it more expensive than it used to be for Americans to holiday abroad.

newtown_grafitti wrote on Feb 25^th, 2013 at 12:55pm:

Maybe it hasn't much to do with 9-11, although a side-effect of that event was a 2007 US government initiative that required US citizens to have a passport in order to travel to western hemisphere countries (including Canada, or Mexico). Previously, common identification such as a drivers license was sufficient to be able to re-enter the US. More importantly, in trade-weighted terms, a US dollar today is only worth 74 cents in foreign currency compared with its value in 2000 (and only 66 cents compared with its value in 1985). In fact it buys less foreign currency today than it has at any time in the last 40 years. Hence this, plus the various fuel surcharges that airlines have applied in recent years, make it more expensive than it used to be for Americans to holiday abroad.

A fact trail will lead to the truth!
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