The Most Popular Destinations for U.S. Travelers Abroad

According to the National Travel and Tourism Office at the U.S. Department of Commerce, Mexico and Canada were by far the most popular destinations for U.S. resident travelers in 2019. While 39.3 million U.S. residents visited Mexico in one year, 15 million made a trip to Canada.

Third on the list is the UK with 3.9 million visitors in 2019, followed by the Italy with 3.2 million and France with 3.1 million travelers. The top 8 list is dominated by European countries with the exception of the Dominican Republic in sixth place.

Another Caribbean nation scored the top spot for most increased traveler volume between 2014 and 2019. Barbados saw six times the amount of U.S. visitors in than it did five years before, while visitors to Iceland and Morocco increased threefold. In line with the trend of more travel to Europe, Portugal and Croatia also increased traveler volumes.