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Record international visitation to the USA in 2015
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08 August 2016 (Edited )

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David 8 August 2016

US NTTO reports that the USA received 77.5M international visitors in 2015, up 3% from 2014, marking the sixth consecutive year of record visitor numbers.

With only a few exceptions (Canada, Brazil, Colombia and Venezuela) new visitation records were set from all major source-market countries.

Top inbound markets with % change from 2014) were:

  1. Canada (-10%)
  2. Mexico (+8%)
  3. UK (+18%)
  4. Japan (+4%)

Overseas countries with largest increases in visitation in 2015 were:

  1. South Korea (+21%)
  2. PRC (+18%)
  3. UK (+18%)
  4. India (+17%)

Overseas regional markets with largest increases in visitation were:

  1. Central America (+14%)
  2. Western Europe (+12%) (Largely driven by UK, DE, FR, ES)
  3. Asia (Largely driven by PRC, KR, IN)
  4. Oceania (+11%)
  5. Caribbean (+11%)(Largely driven by DO, JM, BS)

US Ports of Entry seeing largest visitation increases in 2015 were:

  1. Fort Lauderdale (+30%)
  2. Boston (+29%)
  3. Orlando (+29%)
  4. Dallas (+28%)

Pleasure vs. Business

More than 90% of visits from BR, CO, AR, VE and EC were for pleasure, while fewer than 80% of visits from DE, IN, and NL were for pleasure. Overall, 81.7% of visits from overseas were for pleasure, and 14.6% for business.

All the numbers are here.


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