With approximately half of Americans unhappy with the results of the recent presidential election, numerous travel companies have decided to pitch viable offers to people who want to move abroad.
The second-largest airline in Canada, WestJet Airlines, published ads offering Californians "one-way flights to Canada" in the lead-up to Nov. 5 while British travel company advertised flights back to London from New York, Las Vegas and Orlando as get-out-of-USA-free flights.
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Cruise company says it came up with itinerary before anyone knew who would win
Based in Florida's Pembroke Pines, cruise ship company Villa Vie Residences announced a new four-year cruise itinerary that it is dubbing as a "Skip Forward" into 2028. Running on the 970-passenger Villa Vie Odyssey ship, the cruise runs continuously through different parts of North and South America, Europe and Asia that passengers can join at different ports for a period of either one, two, three or four years.
Prices start from $40,000 per year for a room in which one would be bunking with another traveler to $350,000 to secure a double-occupancy ocean view cabin for four years. At the moment, the ship is sailing through Caribbean destinations like Barbados and Grenada before finishing the year in Ecuador's Guayaquil and continuing on for a four-month tour of South America.
The cruise is being positioned as an ongoing 15-year tour around the world that travelers can hop on or off during that time (the Odyssey set sail on this 15-year journey earlier this year).
The price includes a place on board, food and drinks through the length of the stay, housekeeping and laundry services every two weeks and a limited selection of alcoholic drinks at dinner with no extra charge.
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"We came up with this marketing campaign before we even knew who would win," Villa Vie Residences CEO Mikael Petterson said in a statement provided to Newsweek. "[...] Quite frankly, we don't have a political view one way or the other. We just wanted to give people who feel threatened to have a way to get out."
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Are people really leaving the U.S.? Numbers show otherwise
Now that Trump has been re-elected for a second term, there has been a spike in the number of Americans who are dissatisfied with the results and who are searching for how to leave the country. The same thing happened in 2016.
Searches like "how to move" and "work visa" followed by the country in question soared by more than 500% on Google Trends (GOOGL) immediately after Nov. 5 while different social media platforms were equally alight with posts from people asking how to move to countries like Denmark, Japan and Canada.
Actual numbers show that after the 2016 U.S. presidential election only 2,000 Americans applied for permanent residency in Canada in the following year — although, with the rise of digital nomad visas in many countries around the world, a larger number of people are taking advantage to go on an extended working holiday. Cruise companies have also been advertising such long-haul itineraries as cheaper than rent would be for the same length of time in a major U.S. city like Los Angeles or New York.
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