US Inbound Travel Improving

A report from last week talks about US travel statistics:

Berlin, 1 February 2008 – Preliminary results from IPK International’s World Travel Monitor for 2007, which will be presented at the ITB Future Day at ITB Berlin 2008, and published in the World Travel Trends Report 2008 the same month, confirm that US inbound tourism is well on the way to making a full recovery. However, estimated arrivals from overseas markets – as measured by the Office of Travel & Tourism Industries (OTTI) in the US Department of Commerce – are still down on their 2000 peak.

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France leads the growth in European travel to the USA

According to IPK, west European travel to the USA rose by 11% over the period, in terms of trip volume, as against +10% for east European markets.

The leading European sources, in order of importance, are: the UK (+6% group of companies over 2006 in terms of trips), Germany (+9%), France (+28%), Italy (+20%), Spain (+22%), the Netherlands (+13%) and Ireland (+17%). Russia also increased by 20%, although it is not among the leading sources.

Full report here. [PDF]