New Data Highlights Worldwide Travel Numbers Over the Holidays

by Lacey Pfalz
Last up to date: 11:40 AM ET, Mon January 12, 2026

Data from the National Travel and Tourism Office (NTTO) reveals that the annual lower in worldwide guests to the U.S. was a year-long pattern, with new perception into December, 2025. 

U.S.-international air visitors passenger enplanements, or the variety of vacationers taking worldwide flights to and from the U.S., dropped 0.1 p.c in December, at 23.2 million.

Non-U.S. citizen air passenger arrival dropped 2.9 p.c, following the annual pattern of much less worldwide guests than final yr. The complete was 5.3 million worldwide guests. Year-to-date, complete abroad visitation was down 2.5 p.c from 2024. 

Total air passenger journey between the U.S. and different nations had been dominated by Mexico, which decreased 0.1 p.c; Canada, which decreased 11.9 p.c; the United Kingdom, which decreased 5.6 p.c; the Dominican Republic, which elevated 6.8 p.c and Japan, which elevated 8.9 p.c. These numbers embrace U.S. vacationers and worldwide guests to the U.S. 

We’ve lined a number of the explanation why the U.S. has welcomed much less worldwide guests in 2025. Some main causes embrace extra restrictive visa and entry necessities and charges, fears surrounding private security and the Canadian boycott of the U.S.

Yet Americans aren’t slowing down in heading overseas: departures by Americans heading overseas in December totaled 6.9 million, up 3.2 p.c from final December, and exceeding the December 2019 quantity by over 30 p.c. 

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