Low demand for American travel, as American consumers reduced costs

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American consumers re -plans their vacation and delay travel reservations until the last minute, while economists have warned that the red flag of growth could be in the world’s largest economy.

A number of passengers traveled we Airports in the past 90 days of what they were in the same period last year, where air traffic has decreased for the first time since the Covid-19 pandemic, according to the numbers analysis from the Transport Security Department by TS Lombard.

Airline tickets and hotel accommodations also decreased based on a seasonal rate between April and May, according to the numbers published by the Labor Statistics Office on Wednesday. The operators said it was increasingly difficult to fill the rooms, as President Donald Trump’s trade war fears fears of inflation and unemployment.

“The uncertainty in the environment creates warning behaviors from the guests,” Joan Pohnini, Financial Director at the Hyatt Hotel Group said at the Investors Conference last week in New York.

American consumers in all levels of income reduced their spending on residence and airlines in the year until May, compared to the same period in 2024, according to the analysis of the spending and deduction card spending by Bank of America.

This decrease represents another blow to the American tourism industry, which is reeling from sharp drops in visitors from Canada and Europe amid political and economic tensions and some tourists It suffers from hostile treatment On the American border.

Canadian air Travel To the United States, nearly a quarter of May compared to the same month in 2024, according to Canada statistics. There were also more than 7 percent of expatriates from France and Germany, the largest tourism market in the United States in Europe, in the year until April, according to the International Trade Administration.

The biggest decline in travel spending was among the low -income families, according to Bank of America. The most richer consumers did not reduce their signs from their spending, which means that luxury hotels were often isolated from slowing down.

“The top party is actually giving priority to travel and expertise, and it appears in our numbers,” Pottarini said in Hayat.

Ewout Steenbergen, CEO and Financial President in Reservation, the owner of Booking.com travel agencies, Kayak and their presence. He said that the company’s data showed both the “shortest residences” and more reservations at the last minute in the United States.

With the appearance of reservations later and later, many hotels and camps, whose fees are usually modified in line with the demand, were “unable to lead the price increase they want,” according to Adam Sachs, head of tourism economics in the research group.

Sachs said that the slowdown in the tourism industry was the result of low -income Americans who choose cheaper options, such as road trips, instead of completely canceling their holidays. “Traveling is still a priority for families, but they are trading. They are still making a trip, but they are closer to the home or shorter.”

The short-term real estate of Jim Chandra in the countryside was near Durham, North Carolina, which is unusually quiet so far this year-even after it reduced its prices and reduced the minimum reservation period from three nights to two days.

“By the month of March, we had already most of the summer weekends, but by that stage this year we had nothing in the calendar,” said Chandra, who announces Airbnb and VRKO.

Business has slowed in Cozy Hills and Skyidge paths, running Campages LELANDS CAMPO in Litchfield County, Connecticut.

CAMPO suspended part of the blame on an unusually rainy spring in the northeastern United States, but added that the guests were also getting “much uncomfortable about the economy (and) about the political situation.”

Economists have warned that the slowdown in travel demand was a sign that after years of strong spending, American consumer flexibility began to stumble.

“Travel has always been one of the best early indicators for the rotation of the economy, because it is easily postponed expenditures,” said Stephen Plitz, the chief American economist at Ts Lombard.