Nothing unexpected, but travel to US down in March

 Nothing unexpected, but travel to US down in March

Originating Non-Stop Air Travel in March 2025

Non-U.S. citizen air passenger arrivals to the United States from foreign countries totaled:

4.541 million in March 2025, down 9.7 percent compared to March 2024.

Asian citizen arrivals to the U.S. were down 33.3 percent compared to March 2019.

Source: U.S. International Air Travel Statistics (I-92 data) 

International Visitors Spent $21.2 Billion in June 2024

A quote from news feed: 

Data recently released by the National Travel and Tourism Office (NTTO) show that in June 2024:

• International visitors spent $21.2 billion on travel to, and tourism-related activities within, the United States during the month of June, an increase of more than 14 percent compared to June 2023.
• Conversely, Americans spent more than $20.8 billion traveling abroad during June, yielding a slight balance of trade surplus of $360 million for travel and tourism-related goods and services.

• International visitors have spent nearly $126.2 billion on U.S. travel and tourism-related goods and services year to date (January through June 2024), an increase of 17 percent when compared 2023; international visitors have injected, on average, nearly $697 million a day into the U.S. economy year to date.
• U.S. travel and tourism exports accounted for 23.1 percent of U.S. services exports during June 2024 and 8.0 percent of all U.S. exports, goods and services alike.

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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 $11.7 billion during June 2024 (compared to $10.0 billion in June 2023), an increase of 16 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 55 percent of total U.S. travel and tourism exports in June 2024.
• Passenger Fare Receipts
• Fares received by U.S. carriers from international visitors totaled $3.5 billion in June 2024 (compared to $3.0 billion in the previous year), up 17 percent when compared to June 2023. These receipts represent expenditures by foreign residents on international flights provided by U.S. air carriers.
• Passenger fare receipts accounted for 17 percent of total U.S. travel and tourism exports during June.
• 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 $6.0 billion in June 2024 (compared to $5.5 billion in June 2023), an increase of 9 percent when compared to the previous year.
• Medical tourism, education, and short-term worker expenditures accounted for 28 percent of total U.S. travel and tourism exports in June 2024.

COVID-19 TRAVEL INDUSTRY MONITOR

 A slew of graphs and figures are found here produced by the International Trade Administration of the U.S. Department of Commerce.  Seems travel is a bit up, compared to the lows 2 years ago. Hotel occupancy is dropping again too.

Trade.gov also has these neat one page "fast facts" sheets that are good as infographics.  And a bit more detailed ones as the example here. 

Explore the data.

Flying into MoBay.

Growth of Travel and Tourism Spending Outpaced the Growth of U.S. Economy

A report from the Office of Travel & Tourism Industries (OTTI):

Growth of Travel and Tourism Spending Outpaced the Growth of U.S. Economy

See the press release at:

http://www.bea.gov/newsreleases/industry/tourism/2010/tour110.htm

Now, there are crabs to steam and eat....

U.S. INTERNATIONAL AIR TRAVEL ABROAD DOWN THREE PERCENT IN 2009

The facts man:

• Overseas markets remained down one percent for the year but grew two percent in December.
• Europe declined four percent for the year and decreased five percent for the month.
• Asia was down four percent for the year but grew three percent for the month.
• Canada decreased nine percent for the year and was down six percent for the month.
• The Caribbean decreased two percent for the year but increased seven percent in December.
• For the year, air traffic to Mexico decreased 11 percent. For the month, Mexico was down one percent compared to December 2008.
• South America was up one percent for the year and the month.
• Central America was down two percent for the year but was flat for the month.
• The Middle East was up 41 percent for the year and up 27 percent in December.
• Oceania increased three percent for the year and increased 27 percent for the month.
• Africa increased 25 percent for the year and jumped 18 percent for the month.