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2007-
Location: Stat-USA, State of the Nation Library
This includes statistics from the International Trade Administration’s Office of Travel & Tourism which provides such data as monthly top ports of entry; monthly top 20 countries generating travel to the U.S.; annual top 10 international markets; top states, cities and regions Visited; and country and region of origin market profiles. Click on state of the nation and scroll down to State of the Nation Library.

This U.S. government website provides various tourism statistics.

The library has a premier membership to the association and thus has access to a potpourri of U.S.statistics. Go to the members only section. The user id and password are available to current students, faculty, and staff of George Washingto University upon request from the library.

Lexis/Nexis Statistical provides indexing to statistics produced by Federal agencies, states, and intergovernmental organizations. There are tables for some of the statistics. For most, only citations ot the documents are given. Many of the documents are easily available online, on paper, or in microfiche.

Provides analysis of geographical areas demographically and also as regards lifestyle interests (e.g. bowling foreign travel). It also provides national information on lifestyle segments (e.g. what sorts of activities people like to do needlework and what else they like to do) and on demographic segments. It is the successor to, and an expansion upon, Lifestyle Market Analyst (below).

Annual. 1989-1990, 1992-1999, 2001-2008.
Location: HF.5415.3.L5
Provides analysis of geographical areas demographically and also as regards lifestyle interests (e.g. bowling foreign travel). It also provides national information on lifestyle segments (e.g. what sorts of activities people like to do needlework and what else they like to do) and on demographic segments.

Annual. 1982/83-
Location: G 155. U6 E32
some of the documents indexed. For many of the others, the statistics are available online, in paper, or on microfiche.

"[A] combined effort of Federal Highway Administration's Nationwide Personal Transportation Survey...and the Bureau of Transportation Statistics American Travel Survey...which were conducted separately in previous years."

Provides, "detailed information on long-distance travel in the U.S., states and metropolitan areas.

Annual. 1990-1991, 1993 - 1998, 2000, 2002 -
Location: G 155 .U6 T87
Published by the U.S. Travel Data Center this contains such statistics on travel as mode of transportation and purpose, as well as duration of trips.

This home page provides statistics under "Research" and information on relevant public policy issues. There are links to other sites.

Annual 1997, 1999 -
Location: G 155 .U6 T76

Irregular 2001, 2003
Location: G 156.5 .H47 H5

This site provides airline statistics, including U.S. international passenger data.

Annual 1976, 1982 - 1985, 1987, 1989 - 1990, 1993 - 1999, 2002 -
Location: G 155. U6 I48
Provides data on the effect of travel on each state. Formerly entitled Impact of Travel on State Economies.

Annual 1983/84-1996/97, 1999/2000-
Location: G 155. U6 U59
Previously entitled Survey of State Travel Offices and Survey of U.S. State and Territory Tourism Offices

Annual 1983-
Location: REF G 155. A1 T5896 (Earlier editions in the stacks)
Published by the World Tourism Organization, this "provide[s] in condensed form the basic statistical series on national and international tourism supply and demand in the various countries and regions of the world."

Annual 1988-
Location: G 149. I73

Provides detailed tourism, marketing, social, and economic statistics. Also available, by clicking o the consukmers tag, are consumer lifestyle reports that discuss, "how and why lifestyles differ from country to country including analysis of household profiles, income, education, eating and drinking habits, shopping habits, leisure and tourism." Access is restricted to George Washington University students, faculty, and staff. Walk-in use by others is not permitted.

Annual 1983-1986, 1989-
Location: G 155. A1 B54

1989-1992, 1996, 1998
Location: G 155. A1 C87
Formerly entitled Current Travel and Tourism Indicators and Travel and Tourism Barometer.

This provides tables of statistics. Click on Tourism Factbook on the left.

This provides the full text of WTO documents

Under Economic Research, one can retrieve statistics on the travel and tourism industry in regions of the world and countries. Under Media Centre, one can retrieve press releases.

Location: G 155 .A1 B82 1999

Locaton: G 155 .A1 0734 1989

Annual 1991-1993
Location: G 155. A1 W67

Annual 1971, 1973-1975, 1977-1979, 1981, 1983-1993/1994
Location: G 155. A1 066
Published by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, this covers such topics as international tourist flows, government policy and action, and types of transportation used for member countries of the OECD, which are the advanced industrialized nations.

Annual 1999, 2001-
Location: G 155 .A35 T67
A World Tourism Organization Publication

Annual 1998, 2001-
Location: G 155 .A45 T68
A World Tourism Organization publication

Annual 2001-
Location: G155 .E85 T67
A World Tourism Organization publication

Annual 1995, 1998, 2001-
Location: G 155 .E13 T67
A World Tourism Organization publication

Location: G 155 .N33 T68
A World Tourism Organization publication

Annual 1998-
Location: G 155 .E14 T67
A World Tourism Organization publication

This provides links to web sites for, "official government tourism offices, convention and visitors bureaus, chambers of commerce, and similar agencies."

by Raymond Baron
Location: G 155. A1 T6557 1989
This "provides guidelines for the collections and analysis of tourism and travel data which, if adopted, will lead to a more uniform system of tourism statistics," "assembles data on international tourism from over 200 countries," and "indicates where additional and updated information on tourism trends can be obtained".