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May 2024 Total International Travel Volume To and From the United States
International Trade Administration | August 8, 2024
Outbound Travel Departures from the United States by U.S. Citizens Totaled 9,265,840 in May 2024, an Increase of 9.7 percent Compared to May 2023 Data recently released by the National Travel and Tourism Office show that in May 2024, International Arrivals to the United States Total non-U.S. resident international visitor volume to the United States of 6,068,711 increased +12.7 percent compared to May 2023 and represented 90.5 percent of the pre-COVID total visitor volume reported for May 2019. Overseas visitor volume to the United States of 3,042,475 increased +17.5 percent from May 2023. May 2024 was the thirty-e...
International Visitors Spent $16.5 Billion in December 2022
NTTO | February 13, 2023
Data recently released by the National Travel and Tourism Office (NTTO) show that in December2022: International visitors spent nearly $16.5 billion on travel to, and tourism-related activities within, the United States, an increase of nearly 49 percent compared to December 2021 and the single highest month for U.S. tourism-related exports since February 2020—the onset of the global pandemic. Americans spent more than $15.5 billion traveling abroad, yielding a balance of trade surplus of $932 million for the month. A summation of the twelve months in 2022 (preliminary data, subject to future revisions) suggests that international...
International Visits to the USA Continued to Grow During the First Quarter of 2015
National Travel and Tourism Strategy | September 16, 2015
September 16, 2015 The U.S. Department of Commerce announced that the United States welcomed 16 million international visitors¹ during the first quarter of 2015-183,000 more than in the first quarter of 2014 - a one percent increase in visitors. March 2015 marked the 15th consecutive month of growth in total U.S. visits since January 2014. 5.9 million International visitors traveled to the United States in March, an increase of 0.2 percent compared to March 2014. HIGHLIGHTS ² Top Inbound International Markets The top inbound markets continued to be Canada and Mexico. Overnight volume from Canada totaled 5 million visitors during the...