$2.64T
Total U.S. travel and tourism output
The combined direct and indirect output of the U.S. travel and tourism industry in 2023.
Source: U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis, February 6, 2025Industry reference
U.S. hospitality and travel statistics.
A practical benchmark for hospitality teams, writers and industry partners. Every figure below is sourced from the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis and refers to 2023, its most recent published travel and tourism benchmark.
Last updated October 15, 2026
2023 benchmark
One industry, measured beyond the guest experience.
Travel and tourism reaches well beyond the hotel, restaurant or venue a guest sees. The federal benchmark includes the goods and services purchased directly by visitors, as well as the output and jobs needed to support that activity. That wider view makes the data useful when considering the scale, pace and operating demands behind hospitality environments.
3.03%
Share of U.S. gross domestic product
Travel and tourism value added as a share of the national economy in 2023.
Source: U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis, February 6, 20257.0%
Real output growth
Growth in the goods and services sold directly to visitors during 2023.
Source: U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis, February 6, 2025$81B
Increase in real output
The travel and tourism industry recovered to its 2019 real-output level in 2023.
Source: U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis, February 6, 202510.0M
Travel and tourism jobs
Direct and indirect jobs supported by the industry in 2023.
Source: U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis, February 6, 20256.5M
Direct tourism jobs
Jobs producing goods and services sold directly to visitors in 2023.
Source: U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis, February 6, 2025$1.12T
Indirect tourism output
The goods and services required to support visitor-facing travel and tourism output in 2023.
Source: U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis, February 6, 2025$1.52T
Direct tourism output
The value of domestically produced goods and services purchased directly by visitors in 2023.
Source: U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis, February 6, 20251.44M
Traveler accommodation jobs
Direct jobs in traveler accommodations in 2023, including a gain of 97,000 jobs from the prior year.
Source: U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis, February 6, 202555
Indirect jobs per 100 direct jobs
For every 100 jobs supported directly by travel and tourism, the industry required another 55 indirect jobs in 2023.
Source: U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis, February 6, 20252.3%
Travel and tourism price growth
Annual price growth in 2023, with traveler accommodations among the largest contributors.
Source: U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis, February 6, 202510.5%
Direct tourism employment growth
Growth in direct tourism employment from 2022 to 2023 across all tourism industries.
Source: U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis, February 6, 2025Reading the figures
What the benchmark includes.
The Bureau of Economic Analysis counts direct tourism output as domestically produced goods and services purchased by visitors, such as traveler accommodations and passenger air travel. Indirect output is the activity needed to produce those visitor-facing goods and services, such as hotel toiletries and fuel for passenger travel.
Because the figures cover the full travel and tourism industry, they are a national context for hospitality, not a measure of a single property, market segment or furniture category.
Sources and methodology
Built from a named federal benchmark.
All statistics on this page come from the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis, “Travel and Tourism Satellite Account for 2018–2023”, published February 6, 2025. The report measures 2023 activity and distinguishes direct visitor spending from the supporting activity it requires.
The Bureau's travel and tourism topic page, checked October 15, 2026, identifies this 2023 release as its most recent set of travel and tourism statistics and notes that the series will no longer be produced regularly.
The page preserves the source’s reported figures and labels. Values are shown in the source’s stated units, with “T,” “B” and “M” used only as compact labels for trillion, billion and million.
Cite this page
Integrity Sales and Marketing Group. “U.S. Hospitality and Travel Statistics: 2023 Benchmark.” Updated October 15, 2026.
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