New York’s JFK, Miami, Los Angeles
and San Francisco were the other top
ports generating visitors to Chicago
in 2016, and all four were down when
compared to 2015. With the top five
ports generating fewer visitors to
Chicago in 2016, the city posted its third
decline since 2009.
Overseas visitor arrivals at Fort
Lauderdale’s International Airport (FLL)
totaled 904,000, up 3 percent from 2015.
However, the number of overseas arriv-
als visiting the Fort Lauderdale area was
estimated at 1.02 million, up 12 percent.
Fort Lauderdale saw more visitors
who entered via Miami’s International
Airport and subsequently visited the
city in both 2015 (429,000) and 2016
(480,000), than it did from those who
entered through FLL, although the
growth in visits in 2015 from Miami was
only 12 percent. FLL generated 292,000
visitors in 2015 and 351,000 in 2016, a
20 percent increase. Newark (EWR), New
York’s JFK and Orlando (MCO) were the
next largest ports generating visitors to
Fort Lauderdale in 2016. EWR and JFK
posted growth in 2016 whereas MCO
posted a decline.
This type of analysis can be performed
for each of the top states and cities. In
addition to the changes in arrivals and
visits at the ports of entry that gener-
ate visitation to U.S. destinations, NTTO
also provides additional data that can
be used to explain the shifts in visita-
tion from year to year. An analysis of
other visitor characteristics can also help
pinpoint reasons for visitation changes;
they can include purpose of trip, first
time/repeat, package travel, number of
destinations visited, transportation used
within the U.S. and trip-party size.
This information is unique to the
SIAT, and no other data source provid-
ing visitation estimates can provide as
accurate a justification for the changes
in visits as NTTO can through this
Overseas visitors to U.S. cities in 2016
RANK
CITY
VISITORS (000) | 2015/2016 CHANGE
1 NEW YORK CITY
2 MIAMI
3 LOS ANGELES
4 ORLANDO
5 SAN FRANCISO
6 LAS VEGAS
7
8
9,800
5,379
4,977
4,473
3,571
3,327
-3%
-2%
2%
-5%
-2%
-2%
HONOLULU 2,394 | 1%
WASHINGTON, D.C. 2,090 | -2%
9 BOSTON 1,526 | -5%
10 CHICAGO 1,466 | -10%
Source: U.S. Department of Commerce, ITA, Industry & Analysis, National Travel and Tourism Office
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program. When used to understand visi-
tors to a destination year over year, the
SIAT is a powerful tool in guiding the
travel industry to explain the changes—
and in providing data to expand over-
seas travel to the area. This type of
analysis does not stop at the overseas
level, but can also be done at the coun-
try and individual-sector level.
If your destination shows an increase
or decline that you do not understand,
please contact NTTO, and a staff mem-
ber can explain how visitation estimates
are derived through the SIAT data.
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of the U.S. Department of Commerce
International Trade Administration
manages the Travel and Tourism
Statistical System for the U.S. For more
information and the latest data, market
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