Key Statistics
- U.S. Travel and tourism receipts totaled $804.5 billion in 2008.
- Travel and tourism receipts are directly responsible for 7.7 million jobs and indirectly responsible for more than10 million more jobs.
- The U.S. travel trade surplus totaled $29.7 billion in 2008.
- Recent research indicates that the United States has fallen to the world's #4 tourism destination, behind France, Spain and China.
- Leisure travel accounts for 75 percent of the U.S. domestic travel market
Source: U.S. Travel Association