4 Charts Revealing Americans’ Perceptions of Traveling Abroad
Photo Credit: An American couple on vacation in Italy. Flickr / Ed Yourdon
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While the number of Americans traveling abroad hasn't necessarily increased as quickly as the percentage of those visiting more than one country per trip, Americans are becoming more worldly and that means spending more on more expensive trips.
Nobody's pretending Americans are more worldly than other nationalities, but they're far from being the least traveled.
Data from Hostelworld show Americans are only half as likely as Europeans to journey abroad to more than one country, with the main reason being cost. The average American has been to just three nations, and nearly one-third (29%) of American adults have never been abroad. But there's good news for brands who want to get Americans moving beyond their borders--in 2014, 29% of Americans who traveled internationally visited more than on
