" Overall, international tourists make up six percent of California visitors, but 17 percent of spending."

Only six percent? Florida has 8.5% foreign tourists in 2024.
You know what that means, Liberals.
Trump is hurting the people who need to be hurt!

"International tourists no longer want to go see the roaming bands of drugged out zombies and risk stepping on used needles while watching their rental car get broken into?"

America has been like that for fifty years, ever since Republicans started fighting and losing horrendously the War on Drugs.

The real reason international tourists aren't coming to the United States is the Trump Administration has unilaterally rescinded their Constitutional rights and routinely sends them to extra-judicial detention camps for weeks on end prior to deportation.

"But hey, maybe the war on drugs was fought in the Middle East somehow?"

I'm going with yes! By 2001, we were directly active in Afghanistan's poppy fields. And it was the longest war in this nation's history.

We won exactly nothing. We couldn't even make Pat Tillman getting murdered by our own troops into a Feel Good Story, though we certainly tried.

Astute readers might note Afghanistan isn't really in the Middle East, but since it's chock full of Muslims... close enough.