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Orlando - 60 million visitors
NYC - 55 million visitors
Chicago - 48 million visitors
Atlanta - 48 million visitors (No this doesn't include the airport travelers or else it would have been 149 million)
Los Angeles - 43 million visitors
Las Vegas - 41 million visitors
Dallas - 21 million visitors
San Fran - 18 million visitors
Houston - 15 million visitors
Miami - 14 million visitors
New Orleans - 9 million visitors
Orlando - 60 million visitors
NYC - 55 million visitors
Chicago - 48 million visitors
Atlanta - 48 million visitors (No this doesn't include the airport travelers or else it would have been 149 million)
Los Angeles - 43 million visitors
Las Vegas - 41 million visitors
Dallas - 21 million visitors
San Fran - 18 million visitors
Houston - 15 million visitors
Miami - 14 million visitors
New Orleans - 9 million visitors
Ok. They may avoid it. But it's there. What's there in Houston?
Where is there a french quarter in Houston? Where is there a South Beach in the Houston metro area? Where is there anything of San Francisco in the Houston area? Is Houston's downtown even remotely comparable to Chicago's downtown? A couple museums in Houston beats the dozens of museums in Washington DC and the Mall? Where is there a Times Square in Houston?
Unique being only one of it's kind. What does Houston have to offer to most tourists that is unique to Houston to make people visit more than once? Or even at all?
Amazing how I say Houston or other cities. .but that other city part you ignore
Seriously? That has everything to do with what people have been talking about for a large portion of this thread. "Houston doesn't have anything unique to offer visitors".. Well tourism clearly isn't a major factor in recognition going by those numbers and the "recognition" recieved..
So back to my post asking.. Does the number of tourists/visitors really correlate with the recognition of a city? Because if so Orlando must be off the charts.. Yet for some reason it's not?
Well most tourists to Orlando never see the city to begin with. They go from the Airport to all of the attractions on the SW side of the metro bypassing the mess that is the Orlando metro area.
Well, that pretty much sums up that argument. The number of visitors doesn't have nearly as big an impact on recognition as a lot of yall are trying to claim..
Well, if I know afdinatl as well as I think I do, then he is actually claiming that Orlando is a more appealing tourist destination than New York.
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Originally Posted by TexasTallest So back to my post asking.. Does the number of tourists/visitors really correlate with the recognition of a city? Because if so Orlando must be off the charts.. Yet for some reason it's not?
Well, that pretty much sums up that argument. The number of visitors doesn't have nearly as big an impact on recognition as a lot of yall are trying to claim..
Yes it does. Outside of the people going to Orlando mainly for Disney the more people that come to your city the more recognition that it gets. Then those visitors become repeat visitors. They go home and tell their friends and family about said city. Thing is you have to have events and conventions to get people to said city. Once they are there you have to give them something to do and have it accessibility to other parts of the city.
Seriously? That has everything to do with what people have been talking about for a large portion of this thread. "Houston doesn't have anything unique to offer visitors".. Well tourism clearly isn't a major factor in recognition going by those numbers and the "recognition" recieved..
The link didn't show tourists. We are talking about leisure visitors, not some consultant forced to transfer planes at Hartsfield. That has nothing to do with relative appeal.
Surely you're not arguing that Atlanta has more recognition than LA and San Francisco though, are you? And even with a small number according to this list, NOLA has quite a bit of name recognition due to its uniqueness.
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