International tourists in the United States fall, but Americans continue abroad

Caroline Smith, Director of Accounting from Verona, New Jersey, and her husband took their two children to Italy for the Easter team this month. On the Spanish steps in Rome, they ran to another family of their town. She said that two other families of the same area are visiting Italy independently at the same time.

Families are part of the emerging trend in the World Travel Industry, which is worth $ 11 trillion: Americans travel abroad in large numbers, while the number of US visitors decreases.

Foreign visitors to the United States decreased by Air by approximately 10 % in March of the same month before the previous year and about 13 % by the epidemic to 4.54 million people, according to the data of the International Trade Administration, which is part of the Ministry of Commerce.

The Easter week was last year in March, causing some holidays to shift this year. However, American citizens who fly abroad increased by 1.6 % from last March and increased by 22 % from 2019 to 6.56 million passengers.

The defect can deepen more than $ 50 billion a gap Between what the United States generates through travel and tourism services and what Americans spend abroad. It is a concern for the American travel industry, which brings about $ 1 trillion a year. The American Travel Association said on January 9 that it expects an increase of more than 12 % in spending from international tourism in the United States this year.

The industry group said on Thursday that visitors received by the United States decreased by 14 % in March last year. He said if the trend keeps that the United States could lose 21 billion dollars in travel -related exports. (Travel spending from abroad is calculated in the United States as export.)

For example, outside Trade warHigh -level arrests of visitors as well as permanent visa holders and residents, along with the president Donald TrumpA letter about the seizure of countries such as CanadaAnd a strong American dollar in most of this year and travel warnings did not help increase demand from international travelers.

“We must make the United States a place they want to go,” US Airlines CEO Robert Isom said in an interview with “Squaw Box” from CNBC on Thursday. Other travel leaders said, saying that the approval of the visa should be simplified.

Jpmorgan has warned that a decrease in foreign travel spending in the United States could offer about 0.1 % of GDP this year.

“This indicates another channel that is likely to take into account the assessment of the impact of definitions on economic activity,” he said. “Fears related to the detention of foreign visitors, sometimes by chance, only this effect doubles.”

“President Trump’s agenda is to make America the wealthy, safe and beautiful that benefit Americans and international visitors alike,” White House spokeswoman Anna Kelly said in a statement via email. She said that the administration “is leading the efforts made to show everything that makes America great by bringing global sporting events, including the World Cup and the Olympics, to the United States of America ..”

“There is no doubt that foreigners find the United States less welcoming” is another question that is whether the hesitation in traveling to the United States from abroad is now appearing at international business travel.

“Businessmen do not deal in the face of uncertainty,” he said.

United Airways He said last week that reservations from international passengers who grew up in Europe had decreased by 6 %, while those that originated in Canada decreased by 9 % on an annual basis. Delta Airlines He said she was seeing a similar phenomenon.

But the appetite of American consumers for international trips helps reduce a blow to a fewer international tourists and the weakest demand for local travel in the United States for some companies, such as United and Delta, which cuts flights inside the United States later this year.

“I have traveled all over Europe to a large extent before I tried to do the same with the family now after children are older,” said Smith, 44, who is 7 years old and 11 years old. “We went to Spain in 2023 and Portugal in 2024, was partially chosen because flights are short, compared to Greece, which is listed on the list.”

Grace Cular Yee, a travel consultant owns the pineapple at Lansdowne, Virginiaand Many of its clients said they are thinking of international travel more partly than locals in part because they want to spray on university graduation trips because their children have been largely accused of high school start celebrations during Covid.

“This is a major landmark for all family members,” she said, adding that although many travelers get ideas from social media, more Americans are also inspired by television programs, like the last season of “The White Lotus”, which was appointed in Thailand. She said that she recently planned a trip to France on a high school and daughter that loves the daughter “Emily in Paris”.

United said that advanced reservations earlier this month are stable and distinguished cabin sales increased by 17 %, while international demand increased by 5 %.

The President of Delta, Glen Honchetein, optimistic that this trend will continue and said that the cash sales of international travel come before the same point last year.

He said in a profit call on April 9, adding that international sales in the year “sales that come in the door as of yesterday that we register today, as cash is very strong for internationals during the summer until September, October,” adding that international sales have risen a year.

Many Americans and retirees working on the brink of the abyss with the disturbance of the last market, but the wealthy travelers and aging, especially in the price of the plane, help compensate for this.

“Being a boom, I can say this without fear of revenge: there is only a lot of time to go to Europe or almost a lot of time to go to see Australia or Japan.” “So you have this wealth effect as this group of retirees is richer than any other group even with the latest is the most trusted, and they want to do things.”

It is not clear whether the decline in consumer spending in the back of the plane or even some softness in the growth of companies is a sign that high -end international entertainment bookings will also weaken. Currently, the labor market is still strong.

“Everyone’s life is not completely disrupted, but everyone’s life is currently in full,” said Angel from ICF. “The way people run the uncertainty is that they are backing from decisions.”

Correction: Hawinstein spoke in a profit call on April 9. Previous version made a mistake in history.