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There's no reliable list of the most visited U.S. cities because there's no standard way of counting visitors. Overnight travelers only? Or do you include day-trippers, too? Visitors to anywhere in a metro area? Or strictly within city limits? On top of that, each of the firms used by cities to track tourism has its own methodology. So we can get a idea from them for differing cities. Just cannot compare many cities over the differences of how we count it.
According to the Chicago Tribune December 2016. There are 44,000 rooms in downtown Chicago. Including 3000 that were expected coming on line just in 2017 alone.
The link does not give Metro Chicago hotel room counts.
There are approximately 132 hotels with 31,673 hotel rooms located in Washington, DC city.
Adding a total of 4,104 rooms coming online in 2017. The year of 2017 total should end at 35,777 in totals. according to the 2017 link
The Greater Washington Metropolitan Area is home to 695 hotels with 111,216 rooms (including those located within DC proper). These are 2017 numbers of hotels and in DC proper and then the metro.
This link for DC goes further in stats then the one I found for Chicago.
Sadly, this year is moot in tourism for a large part and loss of business travel and virtually all Conventions canceled and now into next year already.
As with most of these poll threads active currently. The polls quickly chose the city that would win early in the days the thread was created. The gap here as others have.... remained steady. Some still needed to push DC as MUCH GREATER or counts and levels that should have given it a LARGER win. That is not really true though.
Why would you need more a 2 to 1 gap? Stats still are no slouch for either. Most visitors if they do both? They would be ones who could give insight to which city to them proved more fun and enjoyed and if expectations were reached or surpassed, things to do and desired more for a return visit? That count we do not get here.....
There's no reliable list of the most visited U.S. cities because there's no standard way of counting visitors. Overnight travelers only? Or do you include day-trippers, too? Visitors to anywhere in a metro area? Or strictly within city limits? On top of that, each of the firms used by cities to track tourism has its own methodology. So we can get a idea from them for differing cities. Just cannot compare many cities over the differences of how we count it.
According to the Chicago Tribune December 2016. There are 44,000 rooms in downtown Chicago. Including 3000 that were expected coming on line just in 2017 alone.
The link does not give Metro Chicago hotel room counts.
There are approximately 132 hotels with 31,673 hotel rooms located in Washington, DC city.
Adding a total of 4,104 rooms coming online in 2017. The year of 2017 total should end at 35,777 in totals. according to the 2017 link
The Greater Washington Metropolitan Area is home to 695 hotels with 111,216 rooms (including those located within DC proper). These are 2017 numbers of hotels and in DC proper and then the metro.
This link for DC goes further in stats then the one I found for Chicago.
Sadly, this year is moot in tourism for a large part and loss of business travel and virtually all Conventions canceled and now into next year already.
As with most of these poll threads active currently. The polls quickly chose the city that would win early in the days the thread was created. The gap here as others have.... remained steady. Some still needed to push DC as MUCH GREATER or counts and levels that should have given it a LARGER win. That is not really true though.
Why would you need more a 2 to 1 gap? Stats still are no slouch for either. Most visitors if they do both? They would be ones who could give insight to which city to them proved more fun and enjoyed and if expectations were reached or surpassed, things to do and desired more for a return visit? That count we do not get here.....
How does a city count day trip visitors anyway? You can’t count hotel stays or Airbnb. Where are they coming up with those numbers? It’s impossible to count day trip visitors in any city in the world. It’s impossible to track.
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I'm still incredulous that DC is leading this poll. It *must be* voter fraud. It's everywhere.
Not sure why you feel like that. Washington DC has more overall, and more infamous tourist attractions than Chicago and definitely more per capita. I'd be shocked if the majority of people who have visited either felt otherwise honestly. This isn't a thread about which city has the most interesting neighborhoods.
Not sure why you feel like that. Washington DC has more overall, and more infamous tourist attractions than Chicago and definitely more per capita. I'd be shocked if the majority of people who have visited either felt otherwise honestly. This isn't a thread about which city has the most interesting neighborhoods.
Based on your sentence structure, don't think you meant to use the word "infamous" buddy....
Infamous- "well known for some bad quality or deed."
How does a city count day trip visitors anyway? You can’t count hotel stays or Airbnb. Where are they coming up with those numbers? It’s impossible to count day trip visitors in any city in the world. It’s impossible to track.
Not sure why you feel like that. Washington DC has more overall, and more infamous tourist attractions than Chicago and definitely more per capita. I'd be shocked if the majority of people who have visited either felt otherwise honestly. This isn't a thread about which city has the most interesting neighborhoods.
I think we'd be lying to ourselves if we didn't acknowledge the poll results are at least in part thanks to coastal biases, as well as DC's tourist attractions being in every single American kids' 7th grade history textbooks, whereas Chicago's for the most part aren't.
Not sure why you feel like that. Washington DC has more overall, and more infamous tourist attractions than Chicago and definitely more per capita. I'd be shocked if the majority of people who have visited either felt otherwise honestly. This isn't a thread about which city has the most interesting neighborhoods.
Well the OP did ask about ethnic neighborhoods, architecture, restaurants, shopping, entertainment, etc.
So it's not like this thread is only about which city has better museums and monuments.
I think we'd be lying to ourselves if we didn't acknowledge the poll results are at least in part thanks to coastal biases, as well as DC's tourist attractions being in every single American kids' 7th grade history textbooks, whereas Chicago's for the most part aren't.
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I think we'd be lying to ourselves if we didn't acknowledge the poll results are at least in part thanks to coastal biases, as well as DC's tourist attractions being in every single American kids' 7th grade history textbooks, whereas Chicago's for the most part aren't.
That's thing though, if you ask the average 7th grader or adult what "tourist attractions" are in Washington DC they will be able to name the basics at least. The White House, US Capitol, Washington Monument, Lincoln Memorial, Jefferson Memorial, National Mall, Tidal Basin, Supreme Court, multiple Smithsonian museums, Vietnam Vets Wall, MLK Memorial etc. If you ask them what "tourist attractions" are in Chicago they'll probably be able to name Willis/Sears tower, the Bean, Chicago Theater, and maybe Wrigley Field or Mag Mile, but that's about where common tourist knowledge ends.
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