A new questionnaire was fielded in 2012 which provided additional passenger attributes and with the release of the 2013 data year-over-year comparisons are possible. Overall, there are 40 variables available on the US outbound travelers.
The US resident outbound market totaled 61.9 million in 2013, up 2 percent from 2012. Travel to overseas regions (29.0 million) increased 2 percent, to Canada (12.0 million) up one percent and travel to Mexico (20.9 million), the largest outbound market, was up 3 percent.
The top 5 overseas destination countries visited by US residents in 2013 were: the United Kingdom (2.6 million), France (2.0 million), Italy (1.8 million), Jamaica (1.8 million) and Germany (1.7 million). Six of the top 10 overseas destinations visited by US travelers posted increases in 2013.