How essential is a VPN for travelling?

[Boone]

I would be traveling to America from Germany and few of my friends have recommended me to use a VPN because of all the cyber attacks and identity theft cases on the rise in America. If the magnitude of this issue is on the rise, I can renew my subscription with Ivacy VPN. (https://www.ivacy.com/lifetime-vpn/) Kindly help me out here.

[Meat-Head]

Eh if you can renew it then do so, but would it not make sense to find out how these hacks happened first