{"id":190,"date":"2021-11-29T02:26:59","date_gmt":"2021-11-29T02:26:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/?p=190"},"modified":"2023-05-20T15:28:02","modified_gmt":"2023-05-20T22:28:02","slug":"big-really-big-how-big-is-international-travel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/2021\/11\/29\/big-really-big-how-big-is-international-travel\/","title":{"rendered":"Big, really big: How big is international travel?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>International travel is enormous and far more people have been traveling internationally than I ever realized. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">International Travel Scope<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>I missed the growth of international travel[1].  International travel today is not just huge, but much larger than I ever knew. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>60% of American\u2019s have traveled internationally<\/strong> (includes Canada and Mexico).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Over 50% have a current passport<\/strong> (the 60% figure above includes people who traveled earlier in life and may have let their passport expire)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>42% of Americans traveled to at least one international destination in 2018<\/strong> (includes Canada and Mexico but excludes day trips across the border). 3x more Americans visit Mexico than Canada, which is a surprise.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>50% of Americans have traveled to at least one of their ancestral countries<\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>1 in 4 U.S. families with children will travel internationally <em>each year<\/em><\/strong> (as of 2019).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>In 2018, <strong>1.4 billion people in the world traveled to at least one other country<\/strong> that was not their own country<\/em>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Over <s>50% <\/s> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gonzaga.edu\/undergraduate-admission\/why-gonzaga\/explore-gu\/distinctive-programs\/study-abroad#:~:text=Where%20will%20your%20Gonzaga%20experience%20take%20you%3F%20Over,and%20immersive%20study%20abroad%20programs%20around%20the%20globe.\">63% of Gonzaga University students<\/a> will study abroad<\/strong>, and more will do summer programs or summer travel abroad. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>About 11% of all U.S. college students, including community colleges,, study abroad. About 18% of all 4 year college students study abroad.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Willow Glen <u>Middle<\/u> School offers a \u201ctravel study\u201d program in Spain and France \u2013 <em>for middle school students!<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>That is a small example of the scope of today&#8217;s international travel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For most, this observation is silly since everyone has already been to two dozen countries! Rather a &#8220;Duh&#8221; moment, right?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[1] Factors that likely influenced my naivety included six untreated traumatic brain injuries, including one 5&#8243; long skull fracture, 4 knock out blows involving incidents with other broken bones and\/or broken bike helmets, and one non-knock out blow.  No health care provider mentioned &#8220;TBI&#8221; to me and I suffered a variety of ailments for decades due to having had no treatment. With the skull fracture, the doctor made an appointment for me to be x-rayed at an outpatient radiology clinic FIVE DAYS later. I then spent weeks at home vomiting, not recognizing people and not being able to talk. That&#8217;s U.S. health care for you!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Image by <a href=\"https:\/\/pixabay.com\/users\/mohamed_hassan-5229782\/?utm_source=link-attribution&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=image&amp;utm_content=6763903\">mohamed Hassan<\/a> from <a href=\"https:\/\/pixabay.com\/?utm_source=link-attribution&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=image&amp;utm_content=6763903\">Pixabay<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The percent of people who have traveled, from the U.S., and those who travel from other countries, is staggering.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":192,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-background"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}