Some facts about international travel.
 

I'm looking through a report and have the following fun tidbits to share. It's about "overseas" travel, so I'm presuming that it excludes people driving across our borders with our friendly neighbors to the north and south.

There were 28.5 million trips overseas taken by Americans in 2010.

Residents of the state of New York accounted for 19 percent of all trips. If you exclude California, this is about the same amount as all of the states west of the Mississippi combined plus the upper Midwest states of Michigan, Ohio, Illinois, Indiana, and Wisconsin.

Nearly half (47%) of international trips involve staying at a private home. (I interpret this to mean that it's less about vacation and more about visiting family in the home country. Maybe there's another interpretation.)

The median international trip is 11 days, and the mean is 17 days.

84% are visiting 1 country, 11% are visiting 2 countries, and 5% are visiting 3 or more.

The most common points of entry (presumably on return) are New York (22%), Newark (12%), Los Angeles (9%), Miami (7%), and Atlanta (7%). However, the two documents have different figures, with the other one showing departures as follows: New York (18%), Miami (12%), Los Angeles (9%), Atlanta (8%), and Newark (8%) as the largest airports where people leave from. I think the second set of figures is better.

The top ten destinations for overseas travel are (in order): United Kingdom, Dominican Republic (WTF?), France, Italy, Germany, Jamaica (wow), China, Japan, Spain, and India. If you add air trips (not driving) to Canada and Mexico, Mexico is an easy #1 and Canada is an easy #2.

The average expenditure on an overseas trip is $4,327.



Sources:

http://tinet.ita.doc.gov/outreachpag...nd_Profile.pdf

http://tinet.ita.doc.gov/outreachpag...vel_Abroad.pdf

If you want to look at overall tourism from the world and not just America, you can check out this site: http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/ST.INT.RCPT.CD

May this thread never die.

I'd love to go on a WWII battle trip someday. London, Normandy, Battle of the Bulge, Germany.

This is a much better thread.

let's make this one the RPT

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The D.R.? You have got to be shitting me. The can't be right.

Would that actually make you ollie higher? I remember some of the other skater kids doing it but they were doing it so the kingpin wouldn't hang up on coping on half pipes.

I'll bet it's people flying into the DR to cross the boarder into Haiti on humanitarian aid trips.

Seeing these two threads battle each other is like watching my children in a death match.

I was wondering if maybe there were some high-volume resorts there I didn't know about, or if it's a big kickoff point for cruises. But it's not the latter. I don't get it unless it's something humanitarian like you mentioned.

I don't know too if we've admitted a bunch of refugees who tend to go back frequently. I don't think there were enough adoptions in the earthquake to make a dent in these numbers if people were still doing paperwork.

That earthquake was a monster, though, so you may be right. There may be a lot of help and rebuilding going on, in addition to the fact that Haiti wasn't exactly a utopia before the quake.

It would have to be something like that, because I can't see that many people going to the DR, "just because."

Get on it Mr. Kevin. WHY is the DR ranked #2?

Skate shoes always wore through quicker. I actually used Nike's because they lasted a lot longer. I never reversed them but I guess it would have given you more of a tail/nose. Instead of doing that I would drill a couple of more holes in the deck and move the front truck closer to the center to make the nose longer because the noses in that era were really short.

My brother was into some high end skate boards in the late 1970's. I bet his board would be worth something on the vintage market if it was in good condition.