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Economy and tourism

GET/v1/economy/{iso}/tourism

Tourism receipts and spending abroad (balance-of-payments travel, annual and the last eight quarters) beside the size of the economy, with arrivals added up from the country's own monthly count and receipts per arrival.

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Parameters

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

Request

# Tourism's weight in a country's economy
curl "https://api.tourismapi.com/v1/economy/CL/tourism" \
  -H "X-API-Key: $TOURISM_API_KEY"

const res = await fetch("https://api.tourismapi.com/v1/economy/CL/tourism", {
  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/economy/CL/tourism",
    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"])

$ch = curl_init("https://api.tourismapi.com/v1/economy/CL/tourism");
curl_setopt_array($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

Ready

Example response

{
    "meta": {
        "request_id": "req_bb78ee64ca",
        "data_as_of": "2026-10-20T04:48:19Z",
        "count": 51,
        "country": "CL",
        "name": "Chile",
        "latest_year": 2025,
        "quarters": [
            {
                "quarter": "2026-Q2",
                "receipts_usd": 627221750,
                "receipts_change_pct": -11.5,
                "spending_abroad_usd": 770375501,
                "spending_change_pct": 1.9
            },
            {
                "quarter": "2026-Q1",
                "receipts_usd": 1140866893,
                "receipts_change_pct": -14.6,
                "spending_abroad_usd": 975684952,
                "spending_change_pct": 9.2
            },
            {
                "quarter": "2025-Q4",
                "receipts_usd": 967368721,
                "receipts_change_pct": 1.5,
                "spending_abroad_usd": 752348815,
                "spending_change_pct": -10.6
            },
            {
                "quarter": "2025-Q3",
                "receipts_usd": 831608091,
                "receipts_change_pct": 11.3,
                "spending_abroad_usd": 751399734,
                "spending_change_pct": -6.2
            },
            {
                "quarter": "2025-Q2",
                "receipts_usd": 708624154,
                "receipts_change_pct": 18,
                "spending_abroad_usd": 755718520,
                "spending_change_pct": -2.2
            },
            {
                "quarter": "2025-Q1",
                "receipts_usd": 1336515869,
                "receipts_change_pct": 48.4,
                "spending_abroad_usd": 893186751,
                "spending_change_pct": -9.2
            },
            {
                "quarter": "2024-Q4",
                "receipts_usd": 953337591,
                "receipts_change_pct": 29.7,
                "spending_abroad_usd": 841584415,
                "spending_change_pct": 9.5
            },
            {
                "quarter": "2024-Q3",
                "receipts_usd": 747046971,
                "receipts_change_pct": 45.3,
                "spending_abroad_usd": 800656044,
                "spending_change_pct": 1.5
            }
        ],
        "note": "Receipts and spending abroad are the balance-of-payments travel credit and debit; arrivals are the country's own monthly count added up over each whole year (all twelve months held). The last eight quarters of receipts and spending are in meta.quarters; monthly arrivals are at /v1/arrivals."
    },
    "data": [
        {
            "year": 2025,
            "receipts_usd": 3844116835,
            "spending_abroad_usd": 3152653820,
            "arrivals": null,
            "receipts_per_arrival_usd": null,
            "receipts_share_gdp_pct": 1.08
        },
        {
            "year": 2024,
            "receipts_usd": 3201545203,
            "spending_abroad_usd": 3398653204,
            "arrivals": null,
            "receipts_per_arrival_usd": null,
            "receipts_share_gdp_pct": 0.97
        },
        {
            "year": 2023,
            "receipts_usd": 2422229727,
            "spending_abroad_usd": 3086357723,
            "arrivals": null,
            "receipts_per_arrival_usd": null,
            "receipts_share_gdp_pct": 0.72
        }
    ]
}

Response fields

Field	Type	Example
year	number	2025
receipts_usd	number	3844116835
spending_abroad_usd	number	3152653820
arrivals	null	null
receipts_per_arrival_usd	null	null
receipts_share_gdp_pct	number	1.08