Brits are increasingly travelling to see their American cousins, according the figures published by the US department of commerce.
Visitors to the US from the UK rose by ten per cent in March of this year from the same time last year, the biggest increase in visitors for almost 12 months.
The rise for the first three months of 2007 was of three per cent.
UK visitors now constitute almost half of all western European travel to the US, the department of commerce's figures revealed.
And international visitors to the US grew as well, making the UK part of a larger trend: there was a year-on-year increase of 13 per cent in March of this year.
Early Easter holidays was seen as one of the main drivers for the increase in UK visiotrs, the department of commerce argued.
Germany was another country receiving an increasing number of UK tourists, up 6.9 per cent in the first quarter of this year from the same period last year.
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