By Mia Taylor
From TravelPulse
Americans spent a record $15.8 million on international travel-related tourism activities in January, according to the latest data from the National Travel and Tourism Office’s monthly travel trade monitor.
That figure is higher than any other single month leading up to the pandemic’s outbreak in January 2020.
Additional agency data show that U.S. citizen air passenger departures from the U.S. to foreign countries reached 4.28 million in January, which was a 75 percent increase over January 2022. That figure also surpasses January 2019 volume by 7 percent.
International visitors arriving in the United States meanwhile, spent about $14.7 billion on travel to the U.S. and tourism-related activities within the country during the same month. That’s a 63.9 percent year-over-year change. Of that amount, the spending solely within the United States by international visitors amounted to $7.9 billion, which is 114.4 percent higher than a year earlier….