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How it is counted

GET/v1/countries/{iso}/method

How the country counts its visitors (border records, accommodation registers, a traveller survey or airport counts), what is counted, how often and how late it publishes, whether figures are revised, the changes that explain breaks and gaps, and, where the national nights differ from the EU's harmonised count, every month that differs and why (compared_with_eu). Free.

On every plan, Free includedKey requiredJSON or CSVCached until the next release

Parameters

Name	Type	Description
isorequired	string path	ISO 3166 two-letter country code e.g. CL

Request

# How a country counts its visitors
curl "https://api.tourismapi.com/v1/countries/CL/method" \
  -H "X-API-Key: $TOURISM_API_KEY"

const res = await fetch("https://api.tourismapi.com/v1/countries/CL/method", {
  headers: { "X-API-Key": process.env.TOURISM_API_KEY }
});
if (!res.ok) throw new Error(`Tourism API ${res.status}`);
const { meta, data } = await res.json();
console.log(meta.data_as_of, data);

import os, requests

r = requests.get(
    "https://api.tourismapi.com/v1/countries/CL/method",
    headers={"X-API-Key": os.environ["TOURISM_API_KEY"]},
    timeout=10,
)
r.raise_for_status()
body = r.json()
print(body["meta"]["data_as_of"], body["data"])

$ch = curl_init("https://api.tourismapi.com/v1/countries/CL/method");
curl_setopt_array($ch, [
    CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
    CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER     => ["X-API-Key: " . getenv("TOURISM_API_KEY")],
]);
$body = json_decode(curl_exec($ch), true);
print_r($body["data"]);

Your API key

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Example response

{
    "meta": {
        "request_id": "req_d4e9e50435",
        "data_as_of": "2026-11-07T04:49:21Z",
        "count": 1,
        "built_at": "2026-11-07T03:51:02Z"
    },
    "data": {
        "country": "CL",
        "name": "Chile",
        "method": "accommodation",
        "method_label": "Accommodation registers",
        "method_words": "Guests and nights reported by registered tourist accommodation (hotels and similar), counted by the establishments themselves each month.",
        "written": false,
        "basis": "country",
        "counts": "nights",
        "frequency": "monthly",
        "frequency_before": null,
        "latest": "2026-08",
        "delay_months": {
            "now": 3,
            "world_median": 4
        },
        "revised_periods": 0,
        "flags": [],
        "summary": "Accommodation registers, monthly, about 3 months behind",
        "notes": [
            "Guests and nights reported by registered tourist accommodation (hotels and similar), counted by the establishments themselves each month.",
            "Published monthly; the newest figure is for August 2026, about 3 months behind (the usual delay across every country is 4 months).",
            "Hotels and other establishments report each month's guests and nights to the office by a deadline after the month ends, and the office checks and adds them up, so figures usually come one to three months after the month."
        ],
        "events": [
            {
                "date": "2020",
                "what": "First figures held"
            },
            {
                "date": "2026-08",
                "what": "Newest figure held"
            }
        ],
        "compared_with_eu": null
    }
}

Response fields

Field	Type	Example
country	string	CL
name	string	Chile
method	string	accommodation
method_label	string	Accommodation registers
method_words	string	Guests and nights reported by registered tourist accommodation (hotels and similar), counted by the establishments themselves each month.
written	boolean	false
basis	string	country
counts	string	nights
frequency	string	monthly
frequency_before	null	null
latest	string	2026-08
delay_months	object	object
revised_periods	number	0
flags	array	0 items
summary	string	Accommodation registers, monthly, about 3 months behind
notes	array	3 items
events	array	2 items
compared_with_eu	null	null