A large decrease in booking. “Bypass the USA”

CEO of Accor Sébastien Bazin, said on Tuesday in an interview with Bloomberg TV that the company is watching a “fairly clear slowdown” in transatlantic reservations.

– This decrease is greater than 18-20 percent recorded in the first 90 days of the year. Tourists decide to visit places like CanadaSouth America or Egypt instead USA Bazin explained.

“It's probably a fear of traveling to the unknown,” he said. He added that despite the fact that the cases of detention at the border are for now unit, they caused “negative noise”, which begins to affect trends in reservations.

“Transatlantic travels have long been considered one of the most profitable in the world. They are a key source of income for airlines and tourist companies. Now, however, more and more enterprises warn that this direction has been under pressure, both from Americans who limit expenses and avoid Europe and Europeans who bypass the US for political reasons” – explained Bloomber.

Although last week, European airline bosses claimed that they have not yet noticed changes in demand on the routes through the northern Atlantic, the British Virgin Atlantic Airways Ltd warned this week about weakening traffic to Great Britain. This caused a decrease in transatlantic carriers, such as IAG, the owner of British Airways.

On Monday, Air Canada announced that reservations for cross -border flights between Canadian and American cities fell by 10 percent. in the period from April to September. In this way, Canadians react to a growing trade war, avoiding travel to the south. This trend is part of a wider boycott of American products in response to Trump's tariffs and its repeated statements that Canada should become part of the USA.

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