Adventures of Link: U-S-A, U-S-A!
We can hardly believe it, but maybe this video is actually working! The United States just set a new record for international arrivals, drawing 56.7 million foreign tourists in 2007. That's a good deal better than the previous record of 51.2 million, set in 2000. (We told you the US was the destination of the year!)
Though the ever-plummeting price of the dollar makes a trip to the country cheap for a lot of the world, the biggest influx of tourists is from neighboring Mexico and Canada.
That has the Travel Industry Association of America clamoring for government funding to hype the US in overseas markets. It'll be quite a fight, at least for the next 314 days: President Bush says money for tourism marketing isn't on his agenda.
Related Stories:
· US Says Foreign Visitors Set Record in 2007 [Reuters]
· Tourism Glass Half-Full or Half-Empty? [Orlando Sentinel]
· TIA's "See America" Tourism Site [Official Site]
· Portraits of America Video Boring, Inaccurate [Jaunted]
· Tourism Board Travel coverage [Jaunted]
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