Who Visits America Most
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Top 20 countries ranked
The list of America’s top international visitors doesn’t tend to change too much from year to year: Countries like the U.K., Japan, and Germany, appear regularly in the top 10, and occasionally a smaller nation like Israel or Taiwan will pop into the top 20.
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Top 20 countries ranked
The list of America’s top international visitors doesn’t tend to change too much from year to year: Countries like the U.K., Japan, and Germany, appear regularly in the top 10, and occasionally a smaller nation like Israel or Taiwan will pop into the top 20.
See our slideshow of Who Visits America Most.
On the surface, the story looks the same in 2009, based on data from the U.S. Commerce Department’s Office of Travel and Tourism Industries (OTTI), whose latest report shows international arrivals to the U.S. through July of this year. There are a few shifts in position since last time we checked (using OTTI’s 2006 data): Argentina is on the top 20 list this time around; Sweden has dropped a notch; Venezuela has moved up a position.
The real story, though, is not in the order of the list but in the year-to-year comparisons. Unsurprisingly, inbound tourism to the U.S.
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