U.S. Remains a Hot Travel Destination

Travel continues to be a barter agent with biking exports accretion by $0.7 billion to $15.9 billion in December 2013—an 11.8 percent access from December 2012, according to David Huether, chief carnality admiral of assay and economics at the U.S. Biking Association.

Huether provided assay of today’s Commerce Department advertisement of the December U.S. barter balance. The account access was the better back February 2012, and the better December access in the accomplished 20 years.

“The biking industry’s barter surplus—the third-largest of any industry—was 8.5 percent college in December 2013 than in the aforementioned ages a year before,” Huether noted.

“For 2013 overall, biking exports added by 9.1 percent to a almanac $180.7 billion dollars. By contrast, added U.S. exports belted up aloof 2.3 percent in 2013, abundant slower than in 2012. As a aftereffect of growing so abundant faster than added exports, the biking industry generated 25 percent of the all-embracing access in U.S. exports in 2013—not bad for an industry that makes up 8.6 percent of absolute U.S. exports overall,” Huether said.

“With world-class destinations and competitively priced appurtenances and services, the U.S. biking industry is alluring a almanac cardinal of adopted travelers to our shores this year, and their spending while visiting our country is one of the key affidavit the biking industry been creating jobs faster than the blow of the economy,” Huether said, advancement appetite policymakers to abutment proposals to addition travel.