A new report from the U. S. Travel Association projects that the USA's share of the world tourism market will continue to decline, reaching 10.4% 2023 - down from 13.7% in 2015 - with average annual growth of 2.4% vs. 4.8% growth of tourism globally.
USTA President Roger Dow urged Congress to reauthorize national tourist board Brand USA, which costs US taxpayers nothing and has brought 6.6M incremental visitors to the USA since 2014, but will otherwise die in 2020.