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more than a thousand flights being canceled today alone. more than 2,000 across this holiday weekend domestically when you add in global international travel, that s thousands more people impacted on those flights because they ve been canceled or even delayed. and there is that ripple effect whenever you have a cancelation or a delay because of how interconnected we are these days. so we ve been talking to people who are finally coming out today. luckily they re able to get on their flight. so many others obviously not. their flight was canceled or delayed. they re just trying to get home. i can tell you just from yesterday, people were in much better spirits on christmas day traveling to go see their family and friends. today you hear a lot more honking, whistling, there are a lot more police officers out trying to direct traffic. you have people that are just frustrated because there are so many people trying to get home. there s that stress of trying to get back, but it s not workin
to our equally famous theme parks, foreign tourists are checking out of the united states. the latest data from the national travel and tourism office shows a 4% decline in visits from foreign travelers and a 3.3% drop in travel spending. it s costing the u.s. economy more than $4.6 billion in spending that s gone. with it, an estimated 40,000 american jobs. where we should have been growing, we ve been moving in the wrong direction. the wrong direction. reporter: marriott operates more than 5,700 hotels in 110 countriy s countries. they ve seen the down trends in travel to america. global international travel was 1.3 billion trips, up 7% from 2016. u.s. arrivals were down 4% to 5%. you can see, in one year, we re losing share. reporter: it is a decline that began after trump took office, leaving some to call it a trump slump. i think we ve done a fairly