In its final forecast on the subject in 2019, the U.S. Travel Association said last Friday that “Sluggish demand for overseas travel to the U.S. will sustain the trend of the country falling behind international travel growth worldwide.”
While global long-haul travel is projected to grow an average of 4.8 percent annually through 2023, the forecast noted, the pace of U.S. growth is projected to be just half of that figure—2.4 percent.
“That gap will further diminish the U.S. share of the total long-haul travel market to 10.4 percent by 2023,” said US Travel, “continuing the steady slide from its previous high of 13.7 percent in 2015.”
The 2019-2023 decline in market share would translate to a loss to the U.S. economy of a further $78 billion in visitor spending and 130,000 American jobs. As a result of the decline since the 2015 high, the economy has already lost $59 billion and 120,000 jobs through 2018.
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