INTERNATIONAL TRAVELLERS TO AMERICA continued to visit America last year, according to new statistics from the US Department of Commerce. In the first ten months of 2004, 32.2m international travellers visited the US, an increase of 12% from the same period a year earlier. The Department says the figures are not skewed by a one-off surge in any particular month. US arrivals experienced growth in visitation for 13 consecutive months. Overseas arrivals through ports were up 15% for the ten months of 2004. Arrivals through the top 15 ports of entry represented 85% of all overseas arrivals through the period. The top three ports of entry (New York-JFK, Miami and Los Angeles) accounted for 36% of all overseas arrivals. New York remained the leading port of entry. Newark jumped from seventh to fifth place, ahead of Chicago and San Francisco. Sanford moved up from thirteenth to twelfth, ahead of Boston. Detroit and Houston remained in fourteenth and fifteenth spots, respectively.
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