TOURISM & HOSPITALITY / US MARKET EVIDENCE
The US is consistently the number-one or number-two source market for major LatAm tourism economies. Quint·IA Vantage positions your destination or hospitality brand to become the answer an AI assistant recommends when US travelers ask where to go, what to book, and why.
🇲🇽 Mexico
US-RESIDENT TOURISTS BY AIR · 2025
13.7M
13.7 million US-resident tourists arrived by air in 2025 — about two-thirds of all international air arrivals.
Reported directly by SECTUR / Datatur; no calculation involved.
🇩🇴 Dominican Republic
US VISITORS · JAN–OCT 2025
3.7M
3.7 million US visitors arrived between January and October 2025, representing 52% of all international arrivals.
Reported directly by the Dominican Republic Ministry of Tourism as covered by BusinessWire; no calculation involved.
🇨🇷 Costa Rica
US TOURISTS BY AIR · 2025
1,594,882
Nearly 1.6 million US tourists arrived by air in 2025, making the US Costa Rica’s largest single source market.
Reported by Costa Rica’s Instituto Costarricense de Turismo and cited by El Mundo CR; no calculation involved.
🇨🇴 Colombia
US VISITORS · 2025
893,824
The US led Colombia’s source markets in 2025, contributing roughly 24–28% of international visitors depending on the month measured.
Reported by Colombia’s official trade and tourism ministry; the percentage range reflects different monthly measurement windows.
🇵🇪 Peru
US VISITORS · FULL YEAR 2025
628,720
The US was Peru’s second-largest source market in 2025, behind only Chile. A separate January–November government count reports 566,000 visitors, or 14.9%.
Uses the full-year figure reported by Mincetur; the January–November figure is noted separately and is not added to the total.
🇪🇨 Ecuador
US VISITORS · 2025
515,565
The US was Ecuador’s number-one source market in 2025, with nearly all of these visitors arriving by air.
Reported by Ecuador’s Ministry of Tourism and cited by Forbes Ecuador; no calculation involved.
🇵🇦 Panama
SOURCE MARKET POSITION · 2025
#1 US MARKET
The US was Panama’s leading source market in 2025, ahead of Colombia and Canada, contributing the largest share of the country’s record 3 million international visitors.
Reported by Panama’s tourism authority and covered by Infobae Panamá. The supplied sources confirm market leadership but do not provide a US-only visitor count, so Panama is excluded from the regional sum.
🇦🇷 Argentina
US + CANADA VISITOR BLOC · SPEND
$107–114 AVG. DAILY SPEND
INDEC reports the United States and Canada as a combined bloc rather than US-only. The bloc consistently ranks among Argentina’s highest-spending visitor groups, with average daily spend of $107–114.
Reported by Argentina’s national statistics institute as a combined US-and-Canada bloc; no US-only figure is inferred or calculated.
🇧🇴 Bolivia
US TOURIST VISA POLICY
REMOVED DECEMBER 2025
Bolivia removed its US tourist visa requirement after 18 years. The government estimates $900M in potential tourism revenue was lost during the barrier period and projects at least $80M in new revenue from 2026–2029.
Reported as a policy change and government projection through Infobae; this is a market-access story, not a US-arrivals statistic.
REGIONAL SIGNAL
The 21.03M+ total sums only the direct, non-overlapping figures for Mexico, the Dominican Republic, Costa Rica, Colombia, Peru, and Ecuador. Panama is confirmed as the leading US market but is excluded because the supplied source does not provide a US-only visitor count.