Mapping the future of global travel and tourism

Learn about global travel projections through 2025.

Within the past five years, global tourism has reached new heights. International tourists now account for more than 1 billion travel arrivals and $1 trillion in spending abroad1. Over the next 10 years, the growth in travel spending is broadly expected to outpace the global economy.

Visa Performance Solutions provides unique insights into this new and emerging world of travel. Drawing on the power of the world’s most advanced payment network and billions of transactions flowing through VisaNet every day, Visa can help you better understand—and take advantage of—the key trends in global travel and tourism affecting your business and customers.

Using Visa transactions, Visa Performance Solutions employs sophisticated data analysis methods to monitor:

  • Spending patterns across major purchase categories
  • Near real-time views into spending across regions, countries and major cities
  • Cross-border flow of travelers and differences in their spending habits

We also provide detailed travel and tourism forecasts to 2025 for 50 of the largest source markets in global travel today. Projections are derived from travel patterns of Visa-branded cardholders across the globe, combined with household and travel forecasts from Oxford Economics.  

Source

1 United Nations World Tourism Organization.

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New international travel insights report

Visa can also provide timely insights into the future of global travel and tourism. Our latest study explores the key trends expected to impact global travel over the next decade. These include: 

  • A new and growing "traveling class"around the world    
  • An aging global population
  • Greater Internet connectivity, along withimproved transportation infrastructure    

Core findings of our study: By 2025, one in eight households globally will plan and take at least one international trip. They will also spend $5,305 each and $1.5 trillion in aggregate (as measured in today's dollars) on average per year on travel abroad.