International visitors have spent an estimated $76.5 billion on U.S. travel and tourism-related goods and services since the beginning of the year, an increase of nine percent compared to the same period last year.
Americans are also spending more abroad, but the U.S. maintains a $17.2 billion trade surplus for travel and tourism.
Earlier this month, Locke appointed 11 travel and tourism industry leaders to serve on the Corporation for Travel Promotion (CTP) Board of Directors. The CTP - created by the Travel Promotion Act of 2009 - is a new non-profit corporation that will promote travel to the United States and communicate and improve the entry process so that visitors want to return.
Source: U.S. Department of Commerce
