214 countries and territories189 of 193 UN membersmonthly to 2026-09back to 1926
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Getting started

Your first call in five minutes: a key, one request, and how to read what comes back.

Guide

Every request is a GET to https://api.tourismapi.com/v1 with your key in the X-API-Key header. Answers are JSON in a meta and data envelope.

  1. Sign in with Google and copy your key.
  2. Ask for a country's newest figures.
  3. Read meta.data_as_of to see how fresh the answer is.
curl "https://api.tourismapi.com/v1/arrivals?country=CL,BA&from=2026-01" \
  -H "X-API-Key: $TOURISM_API_KEY"

Next, read Periods, dates and frequencies and Definitions differ between countries: the two guides that make a cross-country integration behave.