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Methods, every country

GET/v1/methods

Every country at once: its way of counting, how often and how late it publishes, and its flags (late publisher, revised, monthly stopped), to filter or rank countries by how timely their figures are. Free.

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

Parameters

Name	Type	Description
limitoptional	integer query	Rows per page, 1 to 1000 e.g. 100
cursoroptional	string query	The next value from the previous page

Request

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

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

$ch = curl_init("https://api.tourismapi.com/v1/methods");
curl_setopt_array($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_fd593eed06",
        "data_as_of": "2026-11-07T04:49:21Z",
        "count": 161,
        "built_at": "2026-11-07T03:51:02Z",
        "world_median_delay_months": 4,
        "by_method": {
            "accommodation": 43,
            "air": 9,
            "border": 82,
            "ports": 1,
            "published": 21,
            "survey": 5
        },
        "methods": {
            "border": {
                "label": "Border records",
                "means": "Arrivals recorded at the border: the immigration record or arrival card taken of every traveller entering."
            },
            "accommodation": {
                "label": "Accommodation registers",
                "means": "Guests and nights reported by registered tourist accommodation (hotels and similar), counted by the establishments themselves each month."
            },
            "survey": {
                "label": "Traveller survey",
                "means": "A survey of travellers at airports and ports; the totals are estimated from their answers rather than counted one by one."
            },
            "air": {
                "label": "Airport counts",
                "means": "Passengers counted at the country's airports, arriving and departing."
            },
            "ports": {
                "label": "Port counts",
                "means": "Passengers counted as they arrive at the country's airports and sea ports."
            },
            "payments": {
                "label": "Spending only",
                "means": "Only the money visitors spend in the country is held, from its international payments figures; no count of visitors is held yet."
            },
            "published": {
                "label": "Published counts",
                "means": "Visitor figures as the country's statistics office or tourism authority publishes them; how they are counted is not described here yet."
            }
        }
    },
    "data": [
        {
            "country": "AL",
            "name": "Albania",
            "method": "published",
            "method_label": "Published counts",
            "written": false,
            "basis": "series_name",
            "counts": "arrivals",
            "frequency": "monthly",
            "frequency_before": null,
            "latest": "2026-09",
            "delay_months": {
                "now": 2,
                "world_median": 4
            },
            "revised_periods": 0,
            "flags": [],
            "summary": "Published counts, monthly, published within two months"
        },
        {
            "country": "AS",
            "name": "American Samoa",
            "method": "border",
            "method_label": "Border records",
            "written": false,
            "basis": "country",
            "counts": "arrivals",
            "frequency": "yearly",
            "frequency_before": null,
            "latest": "2020",
            "delay_months": {
                "now": 71,
                "world_median": 4
            },
            "revised_periods": null,
            "flags": [
                "late_publisher",
                "stopped",
                "yearly_only"
            ],
            "summary": "Border records, yearly, about 71 months late"
        },
        {
            "country": "AO",
            "name": "Angola",
            "method": "border",
            "method_label": "Border records",
            "written": false,
            "basis": "country",
            "counts": "arrivals",
            "frequency": "monthly",
            "frequency_before": null,
            "latest": "2023-12",
            "delay_months": {
                "now": 35,
                "world_median": 4
            },
            "revised_periods": 0,
            "flags": [
                "late_publisher",
                "stopped"
            ],
            "summary": "Border records, monthly, about 35 months late"
        }
    ]
}

Response fields

Field	Type	Example
country	string	AL
name	string	Albania
method	string	published
method_label	string	Published counts
written	boolean	false
basis	string	series_name
counts	string	arrivals
frequency	string	monthly
frequency_before	null	null
latest	string	2026-09
delay_months	object	object
revised_periods	number	0
flags	array	0 items
summary	string	Published counts, monthly, published within two months