NTTO: October 2025 International Inbound Visitor Spending

Data recently released by the National Travel and Tourism Office (NTTO) show that in October 2025:

• International visitors spent nearly $20.5 billion on travel to, and tourism-related activities within, the United States during the month of October, a decrease of 3 percent when compared to October 2024.
• Americans spent a record-setting $22.6 billion traveling abroad during October, yielding a nearly $2.2 billion balance of trade deficit (exports minus imports) for travel and tourism-related goods and services.
• International visitors have spent nearly $208.2 billion on U.S. travel and tourism-related goods and services year to date, virtually unchanged (-0.04%) when compared to the same period last year; international visitors have injected, on average, nearly $685 million a day into the U.S. economy this year.
• U.S. travel and tourism exports accounted for 19 percent of U.S. services exports during October 2025 and 7 percent of all U.S. exports, goods and services alike.

Composition of Monthly Spending (Travel Exports)

• Travel Spending
  • Purchases of travel and tourism-related goods and services by international visitors traveling in the United States totaled $11.4 billion during October 2025 (compared to $11.9 billion in October 2024), down 4 percent when compared to the previous year. These goods and services include food, lodging, recreation, gifts, entertainment, local transportation in the United States, and other items incidental to foreign travel.
  • Travel receipts accounted for 56 percent of total U.S. travel and tourism exports in October 2025.
• Passenger Fare Receipts
  • Fares received by U.S. carriers from international visitors totaled nearly $3.1 billion in October 2025 (compared to $3.1 billion in the previous year), relatively unchanged (-1%) when compared to October 2024. These receipts represent expenditures by foreign residents on international flights provided by U.S. air carriers.
  • Passenger fare receipts accounted for 15 percent of total U.S. travel and tourism exports in October 2025.
• Medical/Education/Short-Term Worker Spending
  • Expenditures for educational and health-related tourism, along with all expenditures by border, seasonal, and other short-term workers in the United States totaled $6.0 billion in October 2025 (compared to $6.2 billion in October 2024), a decrease of 3 percent when compared to the previous year.
  • Medical tourism, education, and short-term worker expenditures accounted for 29 percent of total U.S. travel and tourism exports in October 2025.

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