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US visitation 'unlikely to recover to pre-Covid levels until 2025'

Destinations
James Chapple
30 November 2022

International inbound travel to the US is unlikely to recover to pre-pandemic levels until 2025, the US Travel Association has warned.

Advantage's most popular destination for the autumn and winter period is New York

The association said the Biden administration’s "refusal" to address "excessive" wait times for US visa interviews was hampering the rebound.


According to the association, wait times for US visa interviews for potential visitors from some of the country’s top source markets such as Brazil, India and Mexico currently stand at between 400 to 800 days.


In its biannual travel forecast, published on Tuesday (29 November), the association has "significantly downgraded" its expectations for international inbound travel "for the rest of 2022 and 2023".