America, Oh America...

Just to commemorate the inauguration of the new president elect I'll post another quite interesting fact that i found from today's Bank of Estonia's publication. We are talking about official statistics, account deficit to be precise and how it is formulated:

"Reisiteenuste import kasvas tänu Schengeni lepinguga ühinemisele III kvartalis eelmise aastaga võrreldes 14%. Kuigi reisifirmad müüsid reisipakette 5% vähem, siis reisijate ja reisipäevade arv suurenes vastavalt 10% ja 14%. Kõige rohkem (6,2 korda) tõusis USA reiside arv."

Remember the US trip i took?

6,2 times the volume of travel went up in the III quarter, which happens to be the exact time when Estravel had their infamous campaign (East coast tickets for 3999). I heard that they sold about 5000 tickets, plus I also know that most of my friends are going...