International Travel Receipts and Payments Program

The International Travel Receipts and Payments program provides information on U.S. travel and tourism receipts (exports), payments (imports), and the balance of trade; more simply, what international visitors spend in the United States (or, conversely, what U.S. residents spend abroad) on travel and tourism-related goods and services. We provide this data in an interactive tool, the Monthly Travel Trade Monitor.

The National Travel and Tourism Office obtains these datasets from the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA). We analyze the data and publish preliminary data in March, revised data in June, and final annual data in October.

International Travel Receipts and Payments Program Details

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Monthly Travel and Tourism Trade Statistics (Exports, Imports, and Trade Balance)

Annual Travel and Tourism Trade Statistics (Exports, Imports, and Trade Balance)

Annual Travel Trade Statistics by Country and World Region

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In 2009 the International Monetary Fund released the sixth edition of the Balance of Payments and International Investment Position Manual, which included a definitional change for ‘travel’ and the trade of travel-related goods and services.

As a result, the BEA embarked on a path towards a comprehensive restructuring of the U.S. international economic accounts, the most extensive restructuring since 1976, in an effort to bring our international accounts into closer conformity with international guidelines. In June and October 2014, the BEA issued the restructured and revised trade data including new estimates of travel and tourism revising the timeline for travel spending for all world regions and countries from 1999-2013.

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Travel Receipts and Payments: These accounts cover purchases of goods and services by both U.S. persons traveling abroad and by international visitors traveling in the United States for business or personal reasons. These goods and services include food, lodging, recreation, gifts, entertainment, local transportation in the country of travel, and other items incidental to a foreign visit. U.S. travel transactions, with both Canada and Mexico including border transactions, such as day trips for shopping and sightseeing. For 1999-2013 and into the future, the travel spending will also include receipts from education, medical and temporary worker spending.

Passenger Fare Receipts and Payments: These accounts cover the fares received by U.S. air carriers from international visitors for travel between the United States and foreign countries and between two foreign points, the fares received by U.S. vessel operators for travel on cruise vessels, and the fares paid by U.S. residents to foreign air carriers for travel between the United States and foreign countries.

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Select Market Profiles: Survey of International Air Travelers

Market Profile: Air (Intra-USA)

This market profile contains inbound traveler volume, spending, and select traveler characteristics of overseas visitors who used U.S. air transportation (Intra-USA) during their U.S. visit.

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Market Profile: Visit American Indian Communities

This market profile contains inbound traveler volume, spending, and select traveler characteristics of overseas visitors who visited an American Indian community during their U.S. visit.

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Market Profile: Amusement-Theme Park

This market profile contains inbound traveler volume, spending, and select traveler characteristics of overseas visitors who visited an amusement-theme park during their U.S. visit.

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Market Profile: Business

This market profile contains inbound traveler volume, spending, and select traveler characteristics of overseas visitors who conducted business during their U.S. visit.

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Market Profile: Car Rental

This market profile contains inbound traveler volume, spending, and select traveler characteristics of overseas visitors who rented a car during their U.S. visit.

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Market Profile: Cultural-Heritage

This market profile contains inbound traveler volume, spending, and select traveler characteristics of overseas visitors who visited a cultural-heritage site during their U.S. visit.

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Market Profile: Fine Dining

This market profile contains inbound traveler volume, spending, and select traveler characteristics of overseas visitors who experienced find dining during their U.S. visit.

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Market Profile: Hotel-Motel

This market profile contains inbound traveler volume, spending, and select traveler characteristics of overseas visitors who stayed in a hotel-motel during their U.S. visit.

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Market Profile: National Parks

This market profile contains inbound traveler volume, spending, and select traveler characteristics of overseas visitors who visited a U.S. national park(s) during their visit.

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Market Profile: Package

This market profile contains inbound traveler volume, spending, and select traveler characteristics of overseas visitors who purchased a travel package during their U.S. visit.

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Market Profile: Shopping

This market profile contains inbound traveler volume, spending, and select traveler characteristics of overseas visitors who engaged in shopping during their U.S. visit.

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Market Profile: Vacation

This market profile contains inbound traveler volume, spending, and select traveler characteristics of overseas visitors who were on vacation during their U.S. visit.

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Travel and Tourism Research

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Global Business Navigator Chatbot ^Beta

Welcome to the Global Business Navigator, an artificial intelligence (AI) Chatbot from the International Trade Administration (ITA). This tool, currently in beta version testing, is designed to provide general information on the exporting process and the resources available to assist new and experienced U.S. exporters. The Chatbot, developed using Microsoft’s Azure AI services, is trained on ITA’s export-related content and aims to quickly get users the information they need. The Chatbot is intended to make the benefits of exporting more accessible by understanding non-expert language, idiomatic expressions, and foreign languages.

Limitations

As a beta product, the Chatbot is currently being tested and its responses may occasionally produce inaccurate or incomplete information. The Chatbot is trained to decline out of scope or inappropriate requests. The Chatbot’s knowledge is limited to the public information on the Export Solutions web pages of Trade.gov, which covers a wide range of topics on exporting. While it cannot provide responses specific to a company’s product or a specific foreign market, its reference pages will guide you to other relevant government resources and market research. Always double-check the Chatbot’s responses using the provided references or by visiting the Export Solutions web pages on Trade.gov. Do not use its responses as legal or professional advice. Inaccurate advice from the Chatbot would not be a defense to violating any export rules or regulations.

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The Chatbot does not collect information about users and does not use the contents of users’ chat history to learn new information. All feedback is anonymous. Please do not enter personally identifiable information (PII), sensitive, or proprietary information into the Chatbot. Your conversations will not be connected to other interactions or accounts with ITA. Conversations with the Chatbot may be reviewed to help ITA improve the tool and address harmful, illegal, or otherwise inappropriate questions.

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The Chatbot supports a wide range of languages. Because the Chatbot is trained in English and responses are translated, you should verify the translation. For example, the Chatbot may have difficulty with acronyms, abbreviations, and nuances in a language other than English.

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