international travel index
International Visitors Spent Nearly $21.3 Billion in August
NTTO | October 19, 2017
Year-to-date tourism exports total $168 billion, on pace for record-setting 2017 WASHINGTON - The National Travel and Tourism Office (NTTO) today announced that international visitors spent an estimated $21.3 billion on travel to, and tourism-related activities within, the United States during the month of August, an increase of nearly 5 percent when compared to August 2016. In fact, travel and tourism-related exports have exhibited growth each month of 2017, reversing nine consecutive months of declines that began in April 2016. International visitors have spent $167.7 billion on travel and tourism-related goods and services year to da...
Portions of Travel Trends Index Revised Sharply Downward on New Data
U.S. Travel Association | September 6, 2017
Inbound International Travel Volume Posted Overall Decline in Q1 WASHINGTON (September 6, 2017)—The latest Travel Trends Index (TTI) offers a substantially more pessimistic assessment of the U.S. travel economy than in months past, after a revised analysis reveals major storm clouds for the inbound international travel market. The report updates earlier numbers with newly available data, and finds that international visitation—initially found to have grown consistently this year—actually contracted in four of the seven months for which data is so far available. The declines were steepest in February (6.8 percent) and M...
