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Here is a list of The Most Visited Cities in the United States by Foreign Travelers
* NOTE- The arrival numbers come from the Office of Travel and Tourism Industries and exclude visitors from Mexico and Canada, which avoids skewing the numbers with border towns visited on day trips.
1. New York City = 9,285,000
2. Los Angeles = 3,653,000
3. Miami = 2,956,000
4. San Francisco = 2,872,000
5. (tie) Las Vegas = 2,788,000
5. (tie) Orlando = 2,788,000
7. Washington DC = 1,812,000
8. Honolulu = 1,785,000
9. Boston = 1,311,000
10. Chicago = 1,199,000
I don't believe that Seattle and Denver only get under 1 million foreign tourists each year, especially now with the legal weed.
Colorado is the best state for wintersports and Seattle get tons of East Asians!
Wow those are some sorry numbers for Chicago, btw ICM why not include Mexico or Canada
Why? Chicago is not a huge tourist destination for foreign travellers (though it is on the radar at least) and the fact it's near the middle of the country don't help. A lot of visitors to America only really stick to one of the coasts, or both coasts. A lot of Australians and Asians might only visit the West coast, while a lot of Europeans might only visit the eastern cities.
Wow those are some sorry numbers for Chicago, btw ICM why not include Mexico or Canada
Not really "sorry", Chicago has always been around #9 or #10 below the other cities on the list. Chicago doesn't get the attention like the coastal cities for international tourists - get a ton of domestic though. The city still gets millions of foriegn visitors, but in the form of business/convention travel in which case I believe it's right near the top below NYC. Most people will fit in national parks and San Fran/LA out west, or do Florida and northeast cities. Chicago's just too out of the way and certainly overlooked by overseas visitors. People will hit up LA/Hollywood and NYC - so why go to Chicago?
It's actually record numbers for Chicago in 2012, been going up for years now as the city decided to actually start advertising for tourists much more, and opened offices for the first time overseas.
2012 saw 3.2% more international tourists than 2011. For total visitors its gone from 42.4M in 2010 to 45.0M in 2011 to 46.2M last year. Latest I could find is the city gets just under 20M business travelers a year.
Hotel revenue set a record at $857M last year and is on target for another record this year. I'm amazed at how many downtown hotels they've opened the past 7 or so years and the construction just keeps coming. Not sure where all the new people are coming from staying over, although I'm sure business travel is a lot of it and the record tourists.
Last edited by Chicago60614; 12-09-2013 at 10:39 AM..
I don't believe that Seattle and Denver only get under 1 million foreign tourists each year, especially now with the legal weed.
Colorado is the best state for wintersports and Seattle get tons of East Asians!
Denver is not an international city. I would be surprised if they get half a million visitors a year.
Who gets that excited about places overcrowded with foreign tourists? When I'm travelling, I like to find places that aren't overwhelmed by tourists...
I would agree with the author. Most metropolitan areas are single city-centric. I've already started thinking of places like Alexandria, Arlington, Silver Spring, Roslyn, and such as "Washington". Bedroom communities aren't worth differentiating in my personal view.
Well the difference is that some of these non-center-city cities in Los Angeles can be bigger draws than the city itself. Though this point has been cleared up and it is according to metropolitan divisions, so the point is basically moot for places like West Hollywood (Sunset Strip / "boystown") and Santa Monica.
However I wonder if Orange County gets included in LA's metro division, as Disneyland is obviously a huge international draw. I think it is fair to exclude OC because that is not really Los Angeles at all (though it doesn't stop people who exclusively spend their time in OC to say they went to Los Angeles!).
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