\nWASHINGTON<\/strong> \u2013 \u00a0Acting U.S. Under Secretary of Commerce for International Trade Ken Hyatt announced that international visitors spent $21.0 billion on travel to, and tourism-related activities within, the United States in May, a slight decrease (-0.1%) when compared to May 2015. \u00a0This slight downturn is mostly attributable to a decline in passenger fares paid to U.S. carriers by international visitors, which decreased nearly 9 percent in May.<\/p>\n
\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Ken Hyatt<\/strong> “International visitors spent nearly $665 million a day experiencing the United States in May,positioning travel and tourism as America’s leading services export. In fact, travel and tourism exports accounted for nearly a third of all U.S. services exports last year\u2014and 11 percent of all U.S. exports\u2014 supporting more than 1.1 million U.S. jobs,” says\u00a0Acting U.S. Under Secretary of Commerce for International Trade Ken Hyatt<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n International visitors have spent $104.6 billion on U.S. travel and tourism-related goods and services year to date (January through May), an increase of more than 3 percent when compared to the same period last year; conversely, Americans have spent an estimated $65.7 billion abroad, yielding a balance of trade surplus of $38.9 billion year to date.<\/p>\n Monthly Summary<\/strong><\/p>\n Travel Receipts:<\/strong> Purchases of travel and tourism-related goods and services by international visitors traveling in the United States totaled $13.0 billion during May, a decrease of nearly 2 percent when compared to last 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 63 percent of total U.S. travel and tourism exports in May. (Press Release<\/strong>)<\/p>\n \/\/trade.gov\/press\/press-releases\/2016\/international-visitors-inject-21-billion-into-us-economy-in-may-2016-070716.asp<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Get Charter Bus Rental quotes immediately for San Diego Motor Coach, San Diego Mini Bus, San Diego School bus, Tour Bus, Limousines, San Diego Entertainer, San Diego Executive, San Diego Limo Bus, San Diego Double Decker, San Diego Passenger Van and San Diego Public Transportation You as the esteemed client of the promptbuscharters.com can cater… Continue reading International visitors inject $21.0 billion into the U.S. economy in May 2016 and a trip along with the Prompt Bus Charters will be a worthwhile experience in this scenario<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.promptbuscharters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5886"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.promptbuscharters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.promptbuscharters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.promptbuscharters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.promptbuscharters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5886"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.promptbuscharters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5891,"href":"https:\/\/www.promptbuscharters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5886\/revisions\/5891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.promptbuscharters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.promptbuscharters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.promptbuscharters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\nPassenger Fare Receipts:<\/strong> Fares received by U.S. carriers from international visitors totaled $3.2 billion for the month, a decrease of 9 percent when compared to May 2015. Passenger fare receipts accounted for15 percent of total U.S. travel and tourism exports in May.
\nMedical\/Education\/Short-Term Worker(1):\u00a0 Expenditures for educational and health-related tourism, along with all expenditures by border, seasonal, and other short-term workers, totaled more than $4.4 billion in May, an increase of more than 13 percent when compared to the same period last year. Medical tourism, education, and short-term worker receipts accounted for 21 percent of total U.S. travel and tourism exports in May.
\nNTTO is responsible for collecting, analyzing, and disseminating international travel and tourism statistics for the U.S. Travel and Tourism Statistical System. For more monthly travel and tourism-related trade data dating back to 1999.<\/p>\n