This graph (from Semafor) has circulated a lot on social media It shows an incredible drop in tourist visits to the US this year. Literally incredible (literally literally). Kieran Healy explains what the problem is (we have only partial data for 2026) and gives a better graph, showing that tourism from Canada is genuinely down to some extent, but there isn't a huge difference for other major countries (though NZ, which he doesn't look at, is also down).

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In the past day or two on social media I kept seeing this graph from a Semafor story on the declining volume of international visitors to the United States. Semafor Graph. It seems to show, and was be...

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