Quote65-70 percent of respondents across markets say visa barriers and broader geopolitical concerns are significantly suppressing international demand. These factors consistently rank as the top constraint on World Cup-driven travel.
https://www.travelagentcentral.com/hotels/ahla-world-cup-hotel-performance
Would you come here right now? I hope they didn't spend too much on that FIFA prize.
Now that I just run one little rental, I don't have access to large datasets for hotels, so only anecdotal info.
However, when I did market hotels, the second biggest demo was UK visitation (bigger than Canada or Mexico). Foreign visitation ran in the low 20 percent range with UK alone being in the high teens, sometimes 20% by itself.
That was always roughly true with my anecdotal one-apartment dataset. But the last two years, we have had less than 5% foreign. We just got a booking from the UK last week and I realized that it had been ages since we had had one.
From my very very very limited dataset, lots of foreigners seem to be opting out of US trips. Not all, though. I ran into a French family while hiking recently and we ended up second in line on a climb behind a Canadian couple in Red Rocks (near Vegas) a couple weeks ago.
Also, in the national parks, we are actively chasing away foreign visitors - they are being hit with a $100/person 16+ surcharge to enter. A family with two parents, a child 16+ and a child under 16 would now pay $335 to enter Yosemite instead of $35 for a similar family with US residency.