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It's not that big of a deal though but it IS an entire MSA Orlando claims as 1. Undoubtedly Disney World is one of America's (Orlando's) biggest tourist attractions.
What tourist would want to visit New Hope, New Haven, or New Rochelle? So why would NY claim them? Also, the Disney world resort cross over into like 2 or 3 counties. The Orlando Disney World Resort is huge.
Agreed. No sane person would bite on San Antonio having over 2x the visitors of San Francisco (especially with the laughable airport there) - the numbers that started this thread came from some half-arsed cheerleader study by a small local college in a smaller town that ecompasses most of the metro. Additionally, seeing how LAX is the busiest airport in the world for origin and destination passengers (i.e. more people get off the plane and leave the actual airport in LA than anywhere else), that seems to be at a small odds with any list that omits it from the top ten.
New York is the busiest O&D destination in the country. Los Angeles is number two, slightly ahead of Chicago.
210,000 people came to the Mall of America today. Black Friday is a huge contributer to our tourism numbers. A crowd of over 30,000 people was outside the main entrances all at once, up until midnight. Considering it was below 20 degrees with high wind and blowing snow, that's pretty crazy.
It actually makes since for Atlanta's airport to be so busy. I mean look around Atlanta to where the nearest major airport would be. It's wayyyy out there. Atlanta's airport is probably the hub for entire states like GA, AL, AR, MS, and SC. Atlanta is probably the main hub for all of these states since all (except GA) doesn't really have major cities with major transportation hubs. I could be wrong about this but it's just a theory.
The one thing Hartsfield has going for it, aside from serving a large metro area, is the fact that within a 2 plus hour drive from the city, there isn't an airport (sans perhaps Birmingham) that has at least decent air service. So the airport has a massive catchment area to pull passengers from.
Look at Philly for example. That airport experiences a ton of leakage to Newark and BWI.
For Detroit and the size of the city that really is terrible.
Indianapolis metro is 1/3rd the size of Detroit metro *Although the City of Indianapolis is bigger than Detroit and is growing and prospering unlike Detroit*
However Indianapolis had 21,000,000 visitors last year.
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