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The importance of the USA as a generating market of international travel cannot be over-estimated. In 1988, the number of Americans travelling abroad reached a peak of over 41m, with spending for foreign travel estimated at nearly $40 billion (including fares to foreign airlines, but not including those paid to American airlines for travel abroad). OECD data for 1986 and 1987 placed Americans as second only to Germans in their expenditure on international travel. About 60 per cent of these foreign visits by Americans are, understandably, concentrated in the neighbouring countries of Canada and Mexico.* However, more than 14m Americans travelled ‘overseas’ in 1988, mainly to Europe (6.4m) and the Caribbean (3.8m).
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Berrol, E. (1990). The USA — a Major Tourism Generator. In: Quest, M. (eds) Horwath Book of Tourism. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-11687-4_15
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