A drop except for medical and education visits.
According to the data:
Composition of Monthly Spending (Travel Exports)
- Travel Spending
- Purchases of travel and tourism-related goods and services by international visitors traveling in the United States totaled $10.5 billion during March 2025 (compared to $11.7 billion in March 2024), a decrease of 10 percent when compared to the previous year. These goods and services include food, lodging, recreation, gifts, entertainment, local transportation in the United States, and other items incidental to foreign travel.
- Travel receipts accounted for 52 percent of total U.S. travel and tourism exports in March 2025.
- Passenger Fare Receipts
- Fares received by U.S. carriers from international visitors totaled $3.1 billion in March 2025 (compared to $3.4 billion in the previous year), down 8 percent when compared to March 2024. These receipts represent expenditures by foreign residents on international flights provided by U.S. air carriers.
- Passenger fare receipts accounted for 15 percent of total U.S. travel and tourism exports during March.
- Medical/Education/Short-Term Worker Spending
- Expenditures for educational and health-related tourism, along with all expenditures by border, seasonal, and other short-term workers in the United States totaled $6.5 billion in March 2025 (compared to $5.9 billion in March 2024), an increase of 9 percent when compared to the previous year.
- Medical tourism, education, and short-term worker expenditures accounted for 32 percent of total U.S. travel and tourism exports in March 2025.
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