In 2011, more than 62 million people visited the United States from a foreign country. A majority of those visitors come from Canada (21 million) and Mexico (13.4 million). However, millions of tourists visited the U.S. from other countries. According to the U.S. Department of Commerce's Office of Travel & Tourism Industries (OTTI), these are the top fifteen countries for visitors to the U.S. in 2011:
1. Canada - 21 million
2. Mexico - 13.4 million
3. United Kingdom - 3.8 million
4. Japan - 3.25 million
5. Germany - 1.8 million
6. Brazil - 1.508 million
7. France - 1.504 million
8. South Korea - 1.145 million
9. China - 1.09 million
10. Australia - 1.038 million
11. Italy - 892,000
12. Spain - 700,000
13. India - 663,000
14. Netherlands - 601,000
15. Venezuela - 561,000
The OTTI also provides forecasts for the origin countries of tourists over the next few years and the total number of tourists from China and Brazil are expected to rapidly increase through 2016. In 2016, China is expected to be the fifth top source for tourists to the U.S. with 3.2 million tourists (a near doubling). Brazil will be the sixth top source with 2.5 million tourists (an increase of 70% in five years). With this increased demand in tourist visas, the U.S. Department of State has announced plans to increase their ability to process visas from citizens of Brazil and China. In addition to adding staff and increasing hours, in Brazil the State Department will be opening new consulates in Belo Horizonte and Porto Alegre.
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It is worth bearing in mind when looking at these numbers that the U.S. makes it effectively impossible for tourists from many countries to visit the US (unless they are very wealthy.)
interesting numbers, but, I like graphs (!) number of visitors would also be interesting relative to the number of inhabitants of the mentioned countries (and in a graphic), thanks anyway
Bozeman, Montana, states that they will soon convert their Bozeman/Yellowstone Airport to an International one. Since Canadians are the most frequent travelers to the US, I wonder if the conversion will simply be to services that “fly in” Canadians!
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