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More Americans travel now than ever before. https://travel.trade.gov/research/monthly/departures/ https://travel.trade.gov/research/monthly/departures/
by cm2012 8y ago
More Americans travel now than ever before. https://travel.trade.gov/research/monthly/departures/ https://travel.trade.gov/research/monthly/departures/
- wahern 8y agoThose are unique departures, not unique citizens. By my calculation the number of overseas departures relative to population has steadily increased: 6.3% in 1997, 8.5% in 2007, 9.2% in 2017. (Those numbers exclude Mexico, Canada, and the Caribbean.) And only 2008, 2009, and 2010 saw a YTD drop. However, according to this article (https://www.huffingtonpost.com/william-d-chalmers/the-great-american-passpo_b_1920287.html https://www.huffingtonpost.com/william-d-chalmers/the-great-...) the percentage of unique travelers is decreasing (or did decrease) per year. That is, an increasingly selective cohort is traveling more. There's also the question of what percentage of citizens traveling are immigrants. The number of foreign born citizens has been steadily increasing over the above time period. The MMGY Global's report, mentioned in the article, is $3k. I'm not that invested in my post (not to the tune of $3k) so I can't actually look at the data myself.[1] I suspect you may be right and that my impressions are wrong; but it's not at all clear-cut. [1] Especially more recent data as numbers during the Great Recession may have been anomalous.