American visitors increase

VISITORS TO THE UNITED STATES rose by 10% in January according to figures released by the US Department of Commerce last week.  There were 3.4m international arrivals, the fourth straight month of increase.  For this first month of 2010, 17 of the top 20 countries posted increases in visits to the United States.  From Western Europe the numbers were up by only 1%, the influence of a drop of 5% from the UK clearly seen, this put down to the impact of a massive increase in the departure tax and the state of the British economy.  However at 180,000 the passenger number still represents one-third of all European arrivals. www.tinet.ita.doc.gov

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