4 APRIL 2011

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USA publishes 2010 visitors' figures

The US Department of Commerce has released its 2010 report on international visitation, noting a record 60m visitors, five million more than the previous year.

In 2010, the top inbound markets continued to be Canada and Mexico, both of which were up in arrivals along with eight of the nine overseas regional markets.  Non-resident visits from Canada, which set a record in 2010, and Mexico were up 11% and 1% respectively.  Excluding Canada and Mexico overall arrivals from overseas markets accounted for 44% of the total.

Country by country the figures made some interesting reading with the United Kingdom still the biggest market with 3.85m arrivals, but the only major country showing a drop, 1.2%.  Next up was Japan, and here the growth is a mighty 16% (3.38m) but this is likely to drop away in 2011 due to the earthquake problems.  Germany is less than half of the UK at 1.72m (+2.3%) and France seeing an 11.4% increase at 1.34.m.

How the balance of the world economies is changing can be shown with Brazil now seventh in the pecking order (1.19m +34%) and China with a 52% rise and 800,000 visitors to the United States. www.tinet.ita.doc.gov

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