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these statistics are notoriously difficult to measure. For example...let' say a Dominican family visits their family a few times a year in Miami. Are they really international tourists? Or are they visiting family. And let's say a Brazilian couple flies into Miami, rents a car and heads to Key West...are they tourists in Miami. The numbers of visitors measures mainly arrivals by plane, which hardly measures the actual number of people on the street. For example...let's say a Japanese family visits San Fran and then flies domestic to visit Chicago. They'll never be counted. I personally know many Europeans who only visited Chicago from domestic flights from places like Boston, NYC, and DC. Such folks fly under the radar...pun intended.
Have you been to Miami in Winter, it's actually full of a lot of people from Europe and also tons from up north.
Have you been to Miami in Winter, it's actually full of a lot of people from Europe and also tons from up north.
Yes, been there many times, love it. My point is that no city in the US would have more inflated figures of international visitors than Miami. I have one Peruvian friend there who hosts dozens of family/friends from Peru yearly at his place in Maimi Beach (luckily muself as well Repeat that hundreds of thousands of times and you'll get what I am saying. So many (WEALTHY) Latin Americans have friends and family in Miami and what I am saying is that when these people visit their friends and family there, it isn't what you'd consider to be typical "international tourism".
Atlanta isn't a tourist destination on the level of any of these cities but it doesn't mean that it doesn't have attractions. Atlanta actually has plenty see and do. It seems that NOLA didn't make the cut either on this list lol. Maybe NOLA is just as domestic as Atlanta!
In fact when we drove through Houston I think I was the only one who realised it was houston. Our guide didn't even make MENTION we were passing through Houston. They may be big, economically important cities, but to most visitors they mean nothing.
Visitors numbers are usually figured by HOTEL stays not flights. Flights would not show much as more major cities are also major airline hubs, especially Miami, Chicago and Atlanta.
We all know Chicago is a better city than Miami, all my previous post were made in response to ScrantiX trying to put Miami in it's place. We get it, Chicago has more to offer in high-culture and the arts, but Miami has a growing and decent arts scene of it's own. I told ScrantiX he was selling Miami short, and I said Miami has enough amenities to keep a tourist entertained for 3 days(I never said Miami had more to offer than Chicago or that Miami was the better city) and it was the mere fact that I said that Miami had more to offer then just drinking, partying, and sex, and that Miami had somewhat of a cultural/artsy pules in the city, that was what sent ScrantiX into some anti-Miami diatribe, and led him to taking all the Miami cheap shots.
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Repeat that hundreds of thousands of times and you'll get what I am saying. So many (WEALTHY) Latin Americans have friends and family in Miami and what I am saying is that when these people visit their friends and family there, it isn't what you'd consider to be typical "international tourism".
