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World tourism index

GET/v1/monitor/index

The Monitor's headline as a monthly series from 2015: the change on a year, the level against 2019, countries growing and the trust score, for the world or one region.

Analyst plan and upKey requiredJSON or CSVCached until the next release
Parameters
NameTypeDescription
editionoptionalstring
query
world (the default), asia-pacific, europe, americas, africa or middle-east
e.g. world
fromoptionalperiod
query
First period to return
e.g. 2025-01
tooptionalperiod
query
Last period to return
e.g. 2026-08
Request
# The world tourism index, month by month
curl "https://api.tourismapi.com/v1/monitor/index?from=2025-01&to=2026-08" \
  -H "X-API-Key: $TOURISM_API_KEY"
Ready
Example response
{
    "meta": {
        "request_id": "req_7b0dd19565",
        "data_as_of": "2026-11-07T04:51:54Z",
        "count": 20,
        "edition": "world",
        "method": "Each month: the countries' changes on a year combined as a geometric mean weighted by 2019 size; vs_2019_pct the same month in 2019 = 100."
    },
    "data": [
        {
            "month": "2025-01",
            "countries": 96,
            "yoy_pct": 13.3,
            "vs_2019_pct": 109.7,
            "growing": 74,
            "compared": 93,
            "records": 8,
            "trust": 97
        },
        {
            "month": "2025-02",
            "countries": 97,
            "yoy_pct": 3.9,
            "vs_2019_pct": 106.8,
            "growing": 60,
            "compared": 94,
            "records": 0,
            "trust": 97
        },
        {
            "month": "2025-03",
            "countries": 98,
            "yoy_pct": -0.6,
            "vs_2019_pct": 100.6,
            "growing": 43,
            "compared": 94,
            "records": 2,
            "trust": 97
        }
    ]
}
Response fields
FieldTypeExample
monthstring2025-01
countriesnumber96
yoy_pctnumber13.3
vs_2019_pctnumber109.7
growingnumber74
comparednumber93
recordsnumber8
trustnumber97