How much more common are international tourists today, compared to a few decades ago?

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1. I noticed a giant influx of buses with Chinese tourists to Yellowstone.

2. Less. We used to get tons of English and Germans. Not so much anymore.

3. When I was in Los Angeles last year it was flooded with European tourists. To some extent I feel a lot of Americans are almost afraid to tour our cities due to the if it bleeds it leads mantra of our news media.

4. Seems like there are less than their used to be.

5. From what I’ve seen having worked as a hotel chef in a tourist town in western North Carolina, is that often tourists from Asia, South America, and Eastern Europe find their way to interior areas on their second or third trips here. In the mountains of North Carolina near the Blue Ridge Parkway I spoke to many Chinese, Japanese, Brazilian, Russian, Ukrainian, and Indian tourists. We also hosted smaller numbers of Western European tourists, primarily British, French, and Dutch. I was very surprised how many people from overseas found their way to out little town in the mountains. The nearest major international airport is two hours by car and there is not a limited access highway between that city and the town and yet tourists found their way there.

6. We’ve always had lots of tourists just in general here in central Florida. So nothing really new here.

7. Only places I consistently see tourist specially Europeans are at national parks. When I was younger and worked at a fast food joint right next to a busy highway I would also interact with tourist here and there idk how much it’s changed.

8. I haven’t kept track in, say, the last three years, but a ton of international visitors come to NYC

9. This isn’t exactly a tourist spot then or now.

10. Way down since 9/11

11. Canadians come to the Jersey Shore in May and think the water is really warm

12. I saw a surprising amount of Indian and Chinese families checking out the new buc-ee’s in Sevierville. I drive by it everyday to work and the gas is cheap there. Good sausage egg biscuits and pralines.

    Buc-ee’s is basically when you drop a bag of feed inside a chicken coop. Except that chicken co-op is a gas pro shop. And the chickens are white southern families, and the feed is beaver nuggets and brisket sandwiches.

    I find it funny that the brisket sandwiches have BBQ sauce and Texas BBQ culture hates sauce on meat.

13. Being in Chicago this last week visiting family and doing touristy stuff it seems like there are about the same number of international tourists as there were when I lived here back in the late aughts.

    One thing I did notice was tons more middle eastern tourists or at least as a proxy women wearing hijabs in tourist areas.