Here's where Americans want to travel abroad — and where they're losing interest.
Whether Covid variants complicate overseas and foreign travel or not, Americans have been busy at least researching — if not necessarily booking — their next big long-distance getaways.
Travel website ParkSleepFly analyzed Google search data from April through September to track where U.S. travelers are looking. Cancun, Mexico, is our No. 1 dream city stay, while Puerto Rico is the top pick for travel outside the mainland.Just as countries have started to lift pandemic travel bans and Americans begin to at least think about booking vacations abroad, the spread of the delta and omicron variants of Covid-19 has thrown the tourism industry's fortunes to the wind again.
That said, hope springs eternal and U.S. travelers have been busy researching the long-delayed foreign trips they'd like to take once they can. Travel site ParkSleepFly has tracked where they want to go. Researchers at ParkSleepFly analyzed data on Google searches from April to September by Americans on 168 foreign or overseas destinations in terms of flights, vacations and hotels, totaling them to determine rankings in categories such as the most in-demand countries, most in-demand cities and regions, countries increasing in travel popularity and countries seeing a decrease in interest from Americans.