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Inbound Report observes, “An acquaintance of ours who was a fairly respectable and competitive distance runner back in the 1980s and 1990s once joked that his strategy for running a race was this: ‘I start slow, then taper off.’
So it was in 2019 for the inbound travel and tourism industry of the United States. It started slow and proceeded to taper off.”
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Metaphors aside, for a detailed rundown and analysis on where we’ve been and where we’re going, with a country-by-country breakdown of top origin markets, there’s nowhere better to go than the 23rd Annual Outlook Report of Overseas Source Markets plus Canada & Mexico from our sister trade publication, Inbound Report.