For a while, I have been monitoring Australians’ travel to the US.

It’s been pretty clear for nearly a year now that Australians have taken a look at what Trump and his ICE goons are doing and have decided that the US isn’t the place for them.

Last Friday, the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) released the latest travel figures for the month of June.

And given that this included the World Cup, I expected there to be a bit of a bump – after all, that is what happened when Brazil and Russia hosted the World Cup:

But no, there was no spike at all.

Now OK, for some reason fewer Australians every year travel to the US in June than in May, so maybe this is just a normal thing (aside from the not so normal, World Cup, being held), and the figures also count residents returning, so I suspect a few are staying until July.

But if we look at the growth in travel destinations among the top 20 destinations, the US has suffered the biggest fall (I have used the combined south-eastern and north-western Europe categories, because travellers generally visit more than one country when they go to those areas, unlike other nations):

And it is instructive that Canada has seen rather a boom in people travelling from Australia.

Since Trump took office in January 2025, annual travel to the US has fallen 8 per cent, while visits to Canada are up 9.5 per cent:

So, it would seem Australians are not against travelling to North America, just that they’re choosing more and more to travel to the US less and less.

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