international inbound travel
Travel Leaders Share Impact of IPW on International Inbound
U.S. Travel Association | May 14, 2024
Last week, U.S. Travel welcomed 5,700 attendees, including 2,000 international buyers and media from nearly 70 countries—an impressive 20% increase from last year––to IPW in Los Angeles. Each IPW not only cultivates valuable connections and knowledge-sharing but also serves as an economic catalyst, driving over $5.5 billion in future travel to the U.S. by spotlighting the very best of what our country has to offer. There is a decade of opportunity ahead as the United States prepares to welcome millions of new travelers to major events in destinations nationwide, such as Copa America this summer, the FIFA World Cup games and Americ...
New Travel Forecast Shows Normalizing of Leisure Travel Demand From Post-Pandemic Surge
U.S. Travel Association | June 15, 2023
WASHINGTON - The U.S. Travel Association released its biannual forecast for travel to and within the United States through 2026, showing a normalized rate of growth in the domestic leisure travel sector after months of elevated demand. “Robust domestic leisure travel demand has been the driving force in the overall industry’s post-pandemic comeback,” said U.S. Travel Association President and CEO Geoff Freeman. “Though the surge we experienced in the last year is starting to moderate, we expect this segment to remain resilient in coming quarters.” Domestic Leisure Travel Domestic leisure travel is expected to remain s...
March 2022 Total International Travel Volume To and From the United States
International Trade Administration | June 2, 2022
Data recently released by the National Travel and Tourism Office (NTTO) show that in March 2022: International Arrivals to the United States Total non-U.S. resident international visitor volume to the United States of 3,244,404 increased 205.3% from March 2021 but was 51.8% of total visitor volume in March 2019. Overseas visitor volume to the United States of 1,379,766 increased 263.3% from March 2021. March 2022 was the twelfth consecutive month that total non-U.S. resident international arrivals to the United States increased on a year-over-year basis. The largest numbers of international visitors were from Canada (947,79...
U.S. Travel Welcomes Return of International Inbound Travel
U.S. Travel Association | November 5, 2021
WASHINGTON – November 5, 2021 – At air, land and sea ports of entry, and across destinations nationwide, the U.S. travel industry will welcome all vaccinated international visitors back to the United States after 19 months of pandemic-related border restrictions beginning Monday (November 8), a long-awaited milestone that marks the rebuilding of international inbound travel. This action is a key first step in the recovery of the highly lucrative international travel market. In 2019, international inbound travel produced $239 billion in export income for the U.S. economy and directly supported 1.2 million American jobs. “...
Travel Trends Index: Strength of Domestic Leisure Travel Carries Weaker Business, International Inbound Travel
U.S. Travel Association | October 8, 2019
WASHINGTON (October 8, 2019) — Travel to and within the United States grew 3% year-over-year in August, according to the U.S. Travel Association's latest Travel Trends Index (TTI), marking the industry's 116th straight month of growth. The bright spot in the TTI was the strength of the domestic leisure travel segment, which expanded 4% while vacation intentions reached their highest level in 2019 thus far. However, forward-looking bookings and search data indicate there may be uncertainty on the horizon for the domestic segment: the Leading Travel Index (LTI), the TTI's predictive element, projects domestic travel growth will soften to j...
Travel Trends Index: International Inbound Travel Tumbles for Fourth Month This Year
U.S. Travel Association | September 4, 2019
Business travel rebounds to help sustain healthy growth of domestic market Washington — Travel to and within the U.S. grew 3.2% year-over-year in July, according to the U.S. Travel Association’s latest Travel Trends Index (TTI)—a slight rebound from June’s nine-month low. International inbound travel contracted once again in July, falling by 1.2%. The decline follows a disappointing June performance which saw the sector’s six-month trend fall below zero for the first time since September 2015. The Leading Travel Index (LTI), the predictive component of the TTI, projects international inbound travel growth will re...
Industry Execs Talk International Travel With President Trump, Senior Aides
U.S. Travel Association | September 5, 2018
WASHINGTON (September 5, 2018)—The U.S. Travel Association, joined by CEOs of 13 member companies, met Tuesday at the White House with the president of the United States and senior administration officials. The president and industry leaders discussed travel's essential contributions to the U.S. economy and job creation, and the importance of international inbound travel to trade deficit reduction. "Our discussion with the president was simple: a strong flow of international business and leisure travelers into the U.S. reduces the trade deficit and creates an outsize number of American jobs," said Roger Dow, presiden...
