The Office of Travel and Tourism Industries (OTTI) recently published its annual United States Travel and Tourism Exports, Imports, and the Balance of Trade report for 2009.
The OTTI report shows that total international visitor spending for the United States declined dramatically in 2009, resulting in a record-setting year-over-year decline of nearly $21 billion (15%). International visitors spent $121.1 billion in the United States in 2009, averaging nearly $1.7 billion less a month than was spent in 2008.
Americans curtailed their travel-related spending, too, spending nearly 12 percent less while traveling abroad in 2009. This produced a $22 billion trade surplus for travel and tourism, about $7 billion less favorable than in 2008.
View the full report (PDF) for more details about international visitor spending.
