U.S. Outbound Tourism Snapshot for September 2016
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Nine months in to 2016, outbound U.S. tourism is confirming our earlier position that this was going to be an excellent year for foreign travel. A strong currency helps outweigh fears of violence and even Zika.
Some 2.8 million U.S. citizens traveled abroad in September, up five percent over September 2015, according to monthly statistics released this week by the U.S. National Travel and Tourism Office.
This brings U.S. citizen overseas travel to 27 million in the first nine months of the year, up seven percent for the year (this excludes travel to Mexico and Canada).
Every month, the
