International Visitors Spent $16.5 Billion in December 2022

From one of my news feeds:

"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 visitors spent nearly $162.6 billion on U.S. travel and tourism-related goods and services, nearly doubling (up 96%) the amount spent in 2021. International visitors injected, on average, more than $445 million a day into the U.S. economy in 2022."

(Terrance B. Lettsome International Airport, EIS, Tortola)

See the fact sheet from NTTO here.