Fun Research Statistics

The Travel and Tourism is a $1.3 trillion industry in the United States.

The Travel and Tourism generates $100 billion in tax revenue for local, state, and federal governments.

Without the tax revenue generated by the Travel and Tourism Industry,  each U.S. household would pay $898 more in taxes.

The Travel and Tourism industry is one of the country's largest employers with 7.3 million direct travel-generated jobs.

There is $162 billion direct travel-generated payroll and that one out of every eight U.S. non-farm jobs is directly and indirectly created by travel and tourism.

International travelers spent $94 billion in the U.S. in 2004.

Shopping is the most popular domestic trip activity, and is included in 30 percent of all domestic trips.

Approximately 2.6 million hotels rooms are sold everyday in the United States.

80 percent of adult travelers (over 118 million people) have included an historic or cultural activity while traveling.

Spending by resident and international travelers in the U.S. averaged $1.6 billion a day, $68 million an hour, $1.1 million a minute, and $19 thousand a second.

The travel and tourism industry is one of America's largest service exports with $94 billion spent by international visitors in the U.S. and 88 billion spent outside the U.S. by domestic travelers creates.

Americans plan to take 328 million leisure trips during June, July, and August—up 2.3 percent over summer 2004.

Just a 1 percent increase in U.S. worldwide market share would equal a 7.6 million increase in visitors, a $12.3 billion increase in expenditures, 151 new jobs, a $3.3 billion increase in payroll, and $2.1 billion more in federal, state and local tax revenue.