If the US once consisted of German One of their favorite destinations, things today seem to have changed. The reason? THE Donald Trump.
The Germans drastically limit their trips to the US after Donald Trump’s return to the White House and the arrest and detention of German citizens by the US authorities, travel agents said.
Ever since Donald Trump returned, demand for travel to the US has fallen by 15-20% since last February, a report by Timo Colenberg Tourist Agency spokesman Timo Colenberg reports in a report by the first channel of German public television television. Student exchange between Germany and USA. On the contrary, it is pointed out, the demand for travel to Canada is increased.
The German Foreign Ministry, however, characterizes the temporary detention and subsequent expulsion of two 19 -year -olds from the US authorities with the suspicion that they were planning to work in the country with a tourist visa, as well as the case of a 34 -year -old German with a residence permit in the US.
“We are worried, but we think these are individual cases. We are in contact with families and providing consular support, “Foreign Ministry spokesman Christian Wagner said.
However, due to recent incidents, travel sites advise the Germans who intend to visit the US to delete any criticism of their US president on social media or their history of talks.
However, a spokesman for the Christian Democratic Party (CDU) Johannes Vadanpoul has spoken of “unacceptable” actions on the part of the US and stressed that the issue would be the subject of talks from the next German government with its US counterparts.