Insularity breeds (possible) ignorance & rudeness …
Anyone who has read my blog entries knows I’m a rabid supporter of overseas travel for Americans. It’s a "mind-expanding" experience … assuming it’s approached with an open mind willing to learn and assimilate new thoughts, ideas, ways, and attitudes.
It’s unfortunate that more Americans do not travel abroad. I’ve been doing Internet research on the statistics for travel abroad by US citizens. Here is a great summary of what I’ve found:
http://tinet.ita.doc.gov/view/f-2004-101-001/index.html
These are statistics kept by the US Government Office of Travel and Tourism Industries. On the surface, it shows that in 2004 there were 27,351,000 US resident travelers who made trips by air to foreign lands. After a further review of the numbers from the downloaded spreadsheet information available (more detailed than the web page display only), it seems that the 27 million number is actually a trip number, not the actual number of US residents who traveled abroad in the year. The statistics show a mean (or average) of 2.8 trips per year for each person who traveled and was included in these statistics. This means that the same person taking 3 trips counted as 3 travelers in the 27 million number, even though it was only one person – the same person – doing the traveling.
This would suggest that only 9,768,214 US residents traveled abroad by air in 2004. And, it appears that people that travel to foreign lands by air are a tight bunch – they take, on average, 2.8 trips per year, but also have taken an average of 11 trips to foreign lands over a 5-year period. That’s more than 2 trips each year for each traveler! Thus, lots of repeat travelers … business travelers much more so than personal travelers.
Conclusion? On a percentage basis, very few people in the US get any “on the ground” exposure to foreign countries, cultures, or people.
With an estimated 2004 US population of 293 million people, this suggests that only 3.33% of the US populations travels abroad by air in any given year.
And 47% of these trips were taken by US residents living in the Middle Atlantic (includes NY and NJ) and South Atlantic (includes FL) regions, where there are large immigrant and non-citizen populations.
I’ll let you digest these numbers for a while before I do another blog entry on them with more “editorial” comment … meaning my personal conclusions about these statistics. I’m trying to find some statistics on how the US stacks up against other nations with respect to the percentage of the population that travels abroad in a given year.
This may take me quite a few evenings of Google searching. I do have a day job!
:-)
Ciao … Mark
http://www.italianrealestateassist.com
It’s unfortunate that more Americans do not travel abroad. I’ve been doing Internet research on the statistics for travel abroad by US citizens. Here is a great summary of what I’ve found:
http://tinet.ita.doc.gov/view/f-2004-101-001/index.html
These are statistics kept by the US Government Office of Travel and Tourism Industries. On the surface, it shows that in 2004 there were 27,351,000 US resident travelers who made trips by air to foreign lands. After a further review of the numbers from the downloaded spreadsheet information available (more detailed than the web page display only), it seems that the 27 million number is actually a trip number, not the actual number of US residents who traveled abroad in the year. The statistics show a mean (or average) of 2.8 trips per year for each person who traveled and was included in these statistics. This means that the same person taking 3 trips counted as 3 travelers in the 27 million number, even though it was only one person – the same person – doing the traveling.
This would suggest that only 9,768,214 US residents traveled abroad by air in 2004. And, it appears that people that travel to foreign lands by air are a tight bunch – they take, on average, 2.8 trips per year, but also have taken an average of 11 trips to foreign lands over a 5-year period. That’s more than 2 trips each year for each traveler! Thus, lots of repeat travelers … business travelers much more so than personal travelers.
Conclusion? On a percentage basis, very few people in the US get any “on the ground” exposure to foreign countries, cultures, or people.
With an estimated 2004 US population of 293 million people, this suggests that only 3.33% of the US populations travels abroad by air in any given year.
And 47% of these trips were taken by US residents living in the Middle Atlantic (includes NY and NJ) and South Atlantic (includes FL) regions, where there are large immigrant and non-citizen populations.
I’ll let you digest these numbers for a while before I do another blog entry on them with more “editorial” comment … meaning my personal conclusions about these statistics. I’m trying to find some statistics on how the US stacks up against other nations with respect to the percentage of the population that travels abroad in a given year.
This may take me quite a few evenings of Google searching. I do have a day job!
:-)
Ciao … Mark
http://www.italianrealestateassist.com
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