The Number Of European Visitor Arrivals To The US Has Crashed

There has been some anecdotal evidence that international arrivals to the US have softened quite a bit this year. Some airlines have signaled that their forward-looking bookings are down (Virgin Atlantic) or that they cannot give guidance about the performance in 2025 (Delta).

Hoteliers have been mostly quiet, although the CEO of Accor, Mr. Sébastien Bazin, told the other week that they are seeing 25% fewer advance bookings by Europeans for the US this summer than last year.

Financial Times has looked into the data and published a piece on Friday that is based on the actual arrivals numbers, number of foreign passengers on flights to the US, and foreign travelers passing through US airports that clearly explain the issue on the following graphs:

Just realised the Iceland data got cut off in the original image because the decline was too steep to fit