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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.
This is inaccurate. Unless it's using the 3 County metro (Orange , OSceola, and Seminole) . Though most of these come to Orange County.
Also they probably didn't include the tourist that come from Miami and sorts.
A lot of these numbers are super inflated since somebody landing at your Airport is technically a visitor! Miami counts a "tourism visitor" as someone who stays "Overnight" and stays at a hotel!
Using this criteria the numbers would drop dramatically for most cities.
Some of the cities also count sport stadium attendance, Theater , Museum all visitors . And some cities only count overnight visitors. Like some cities that claim they get 20million visitors with only 10000 hotel rooms even at 100% occupancy overnight vistors at the max would be 3.5 million . Unless they count there whole metro. Seattle gets 10 million overnight visitors a year . I know cities with vibrant downtowns could realy inflate numbers if they count all visitors. Seattle has 30+ theaters live and movie downtown . Not to mention 3 sport stadiums . I think a more accurate measure of annual visitors for a city would be overnight stays . Since some people might actualy do more than one thing in the city . Realize if a person went downtown and went to several museums in one day they would be counted as several visitors even though there only one person.
Actually the 2012 greater Philadelphia tourism report says there was 38 million visitors to the 5 county area around Philadelphia but only 5.59 million were overnight visitors in the Philadelphia county. The county as a whole only has 15,000 hotel rooms and center city has 10,600 rooms. But 38 miilon visitors is great number to visit the city.
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.
Thats kool but thats not overnight visitors . That averages out to 59,000 visitors a day and Indianapolis only has around 6,000 hotel rooms. If they were overnight visitors the hotel rooms would be averaging 10 guest per a room a night and 100% occupancy. Even when they had the Superbowl there was a 15,000 hotel rooms within an hour drive of Indianapolis and still would not be possible for 20 million overnight visitors.
Baltimore had 29,000,000 in 2009. I got tired of looking for updated numbers.
Thats total visitors to the city not overnight tourist. That equals out to an average of 84,269 people a day , but Baltimore only has 8,100 hotel rooms . Baltimore would have to have 35 to 40 thousand hotel rooms to handle that many overnight guest and be at full 100% occupancy.
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.
Well, congratulations.
Indianapolis: 21 million a year= $3.58 billion a year
Detroit: 16 million a year= $4.8 billion a year
Even with an extra 5 million people, Indianapolis tourism economy still falls short by over $1 billion. And the economic output is what really matters. So I guess it all evens itself out.
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A lot of these numbers are super inflated since somebody landing at your Airport is technically a visitor! Miami counts a "tourism visitor" as someone who stays "Overnight" and stays at a hotel!
Using this criteria the numbers would drop dramatically for most cities.
Okay, but as a major cruise port, that would skew numbers for people who fly in and spend the night before departing on their cruise, with no real intention of visiting Miami. Granted, it adds a lot to the economy, but it's not exactly the spirit of this metric.
Okay, but as a major cruise port, that would skew numbers for people who fly in and spend the night before departing on their cruise, with no real intention of visiting Miami. Granted, it adds a lot to the economy, but it's not exactly the spirit of this metric.
Good point.
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