Travel to and within the U.S. grew 3.6 percent year-over-year in December, according to the U.S. Travel Association’s Travel Trends Index (TTI)—marking the industry’s 108th straight month of overall expansion.
The growth trend is tempered by concerning signs in the lucrative international inbound market, however. That segment grew at a rate of 2.8 percent in December—well off November’s hot pace of 3.8 percent growth year-over-year. Worse, the deceleration trend is expected to continue, with the Leading Travel Index (LTI) projecting international inbound travel to slow to 2.0 percent through June 2019.