Lost Tourism

The travel industry is claiming that the difficulty of obtaining a US visa is reducing the number of foreign tourists visiting our fair land. 

Two grim facts: More Chinese now visit France than the United States, in part because it's hard to get a U.S. visitors visa. And while the U.S. used to be the destination for 17 percent of the world's tourists in 2000, that's dropped to 12.4 percent and shows no sign of changing.