International tourism, expenditures for travel items (current US$) - Country Ranking - Central America & the Caribbean
Definition: International tourism expenditures are expenditures of international outbound visitors in other countries. The goods and services are purchased by, or on behalf of, the traveler or provided, without a quid pro quo, for the traveler to use or give away. These may include expenditures by residents traveling abroad as same-day visitors, except in cases where these are so important as to justify a separate classification. Excluded is the international carriage of travelers, which is covered in passenger travel items. Data are in current U.S. dollars.
Source: World Tourism Organization, Yearbook of Tourism Statistics, Compendium of Tourism Statistics and data files.
See also: Thematic map, Time series comparison
| Rank | Country | Value | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Puerto Rico | 592,000,000.00 | 2018 |
| 2 | Panama | 465,000,000.00 | 2020 |
| 3 | Costa Rica | 300,000,000.00 | 2020 |
| 4 | Guatemala | 256,000,000.00 | 2020 |
| 5 | Cayman Islands | 227,000,000.00 | 2019 |
| 6 | Haiti | 217,000,000.00 | 2019 |
| 7 | Dominican Republic | 214,000,000.00 | 2020 |
| 8 | Honduras | 163,000,000.00 | 2020 |
| 9 | El Salvador | 142,000,000.00 | 2020 |
| 10 | Jamaica | 131,000,000.00 | 2020 |
| 11 | The Bahamas | 110,000,000.00 | 2020 |
| 12 | Nicaragua | 63,000,000.00 | 2020 |
| 13 | Barbados | 53,000,000.00 | 2016 |
| 14 | Trinidad and Tobago | 33,000,000.00 | 2020 |
| 15 | Antigua and Barbuda | 27,000,000.00 | 2020 |
| 16 | Belize | 20,550,000.00 | 2020 |
| 17 | St. Lucia | 19,000,000.00 | 2020 |
| 18 | St. Kitts and Nevis | 13,000,000.00 | 2020 |
| 19 | St. Vincent and the Grenadines | 9,000,000.00 | 2020 |
| 20 | Dominica | 6,000,000.00 | 2020 |
| 21 | Grenada | 5,000,000.00 | 2020 |
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Aggregation method: Gap-filled total
Periodicity: Annual
