Europeans Are Cutting U.S. Summer Trips Due to 'Bad Buzz', Accor CEO Says
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Accor's CEO highlights a significant drop in European summer bookings to the U.S., suggesting that geopolitical anxieties and perceived "bad buzz" are diverting European travel.
Summer bookings from Europe to the United States have fallen by 25%, according to Accor Group CEO Sébastien Bazin.
"We see a pretty strong deceleration cross Atlantic. The forward booking from European travelers going to America is minus 25%," Bazin said in a Bloomberg TV interview.
The CEO of the Paris-based group, which runs about 5,600 hotels worldwide, cited "bad buzz" after recent reports of some tourists being detained by U.S. bord
