International Visitors Spent $19 Billion in the United States in August 2023

National Travel and Tourism Office (NTTO) | October 10, 2023

Data recently released by the National Travel and Tourism Office (NTTO) show that in August 2023: International visitors spent $19.0 billion on travel to, and tourism-related activities within, the United States, an increase of nearly 29 percent compared to August 2022 and the highest level of monthly spending since the onset of COVID-19 in early 2020. Conversely, Americans spent more than $17.2 billion traveling abroad during August, yielding a balance of trade surplus of nearly $1.8 billion and the fifth consecutive month during which the United States enjoyed a balance of trade surplus for travel and tourism-related goods and serv...