> People don't want to travel to the U.S. right now
Not enough to break a conference. “International arrivals to the United States in 2025 decreased 5.5% from 2024” [1]. (HY1 2026 is basically in line with 2025 [2].)
> People who attend conferences like this are probably not a representative sample of general arrivals
Business air travel to America was flat in 2025 from 2024 [1][2]. I'm just not seeing any data which support the hypothesis that conference visitation to the U.S. has cratered in general to the point of threatening conference finances. (NTTO stopped breaking out conference visitation after 2019 [3].)
> People don't want to travel to the U.S. right now
Not enough to break a conference. “International arrivals to the United States in 2025 decreased 5.5% from 2024” [1]. (HY1 2026 is basically in line with 2025 [2].)
[1] https://www.congress.gov/crs-product/IN12589#:~:text=There%2...
[2] https://roadgenius.com/statistics/tourism/usa/#:~:text=In%20...
People who attend conferences like this are probably not a representative sample of general arrivals.
> People who attend conferences like this are probably not a representative sample of general arrivals
Business air travel to America was flat in 2025 from 2024 [1][2]. I'm just not seeing any data which support the hypothesis that conference visitation to the U.S. has cratered in general to the point of threatening conference finances. (NTTO stopped breaking out conference visitation after 2019 [3].)
[1] https://assistant.kagi.com/chat/406c2636-106f-400e-a1f8-7011... '25
[2] https://www.trade.gov/feature-article/survey-international-a... '24
[3] https://www.trade.gov/feature-article/2019-overseas-visitati...
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There are 300+M people already in the US, including a huge portion of the global computer science community…
This is not very international. Firstly DEI is apparently nongrata in the US now. On top of it GHC got a terrible reputation in recent years.
> On top of it GHC got a terrible reputation in recent years.
It did? What happened?
And companies (who provide direct sponsorship, and send staff) are cowering.
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