alt Hacker News> as dependent on European tourism the way Southern Europe is on American tourism.
We're mostly dependent on other Europeans, the US is not the single highest tourist/visitor in any of the Southern Europe countries. Italy is the country with the highest percentage of American tourists, but even they have more German visitors. Most southern countries have most tourists from the UK, Germany and France, kind of as expected.
If you think about it for a second that makes a ton of sense too, considering the distances involved here, and how cheap flights inside Europe are.
> We're mostly dependent on other Europeans, the US is not the single highest tourist/visitor in any of the Southern Europe countries
Oh totally agree. But removing American tourism would require stabilizing policy interventions on the European side. It would not on the American side. That’s why threatening to cut off American tourists to Europe as a mooted retaliation measure is dumb. (I can also absolutely see Brussels doing it instead of any of the hard stuff.)