Brits Keep Going to USA

International visits to the USA set new records. The U.S. Department of Commerce announced that a record 58 million international visitors traveled to the United States during 2008, an increase of nearly four percent over 2007. U.S. Visits from Western Europe, 12.2million visitors, was up 12 percent for the year and accounted for 48 percent of overseas arrivals.

Arrivals from the United Kingdom were up more than one percent for the year. Visitors from the United Kingdom accounted for 37 percent of all Western European arrivals.