Who can we thank for all the turmoil in the world? We can dissect it, but we will leave that for another day. This is about the vacation traveller, like myself, who stays closer to home.

Even the Octoberfest is struggling this year with a significant drop of revelers the first full weekend. But we will stick with Orlando, which has broken visitor records in the past two years and attracted 66 million visitors last year. But this is the first time in at least three years that the city has seen declines in hotel occupancy rates or rooms sold since data like this could be tracked.

According to Fox News:

Even before Orlando’s summer of tragedies — the worst mass shooting in modern U.S. history, the death of a toddler by an alligator, the slaying of a former singer from “The Voice” — some tourism indicators were declining in the most-visited city in America. Hotel occupancy rates were down 2.5 percent for the year through July, and the number of hotel rooms sold had dropped almost 2 percent from the previous year.

It seems to me the bad guys are winning in the war of fear. It is hitting all over and I am curious to see the figures from the summer season in Europe. I’m under the impression not many people want to spend a week or two with hordes of migrant jackets from the Middle East and Africa. This is what is going to cause the changes needed, once the banks start feeling the pinch, that is when changes will be made up to and including deportation. You keep watching, it started in Germany when Angela Merkel’s Party lost their election, and you will see it in the United States  starting tonight with the first Presidential Debate.

What do you think?