Department of Commerce; Most visited cities by overseas travelers in 2009.

[DANNYY]

Originally Posted by seanCa

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LA is much bigger than Miami. Philadelphia is bigger than San Francisco. Houston is bigger than Honolulu.

What does population have to do with anything?

No I was talking about NYC bigger than everyone else.

[killakoolaide]

But of course.....someone had to dig up this dead and stinking thread.

Hmmm I wonder why

[seanCa]

Originally Posted by killakoolaide

But of course.....someone had to dig up this dead and stinking thread.

Hmmm I wonder why

A dead and stinking thread from an hour ago? Information just released by the Dept of Commerce a few days ago?



Why do you want this thread buried? Because only 1.6% of visitors actually wanted to travel to Philadelphia (look at the leisure column)?

[DANNYY]

Originally Posted by killakoolaide

But of course.....someone had to dig up this dead and stinking thread.

Hmmm I wonder why

You realize this thread was made today, that to in the evening. I fail to see how it is "dead" and definitely don't understand why you claim someone would dig it up if it was already at the surface of the City VS City forums.

[killakoolaide]

Originally Posted by seanCa

A dead and stinking thread from an hour ago? Information just released by the Dept of Commerce a few days ago?



Why do you want this thread buried? Because only 1.6% of visitors actually wanted to travel to Philadelphia (look at the leisure column)?

My mistake I didn't see it there.

But in anycase, I left a present for yous on the what's my city remembered for thread in the general forum.

[polo89]

Originally Posted by seanCa

It's funny how they're mostly in the 500,000-2,000,000 range and NYC blows them out of the water with 7.8 M .

Impressive.

NYC is the most advertised city, if Miami or LA got half the advertisement of NYC, it would be a different story, heck if it was a state vs state comparison in terms of visitors it would be a different story. But, it's not, and NYC is the CLEAR number 1 city.

[GLS2010]

remember this is only foreign visitors. Visitors in total are a different story.

[vivo]

ok what's in Newark?

[rainrock]

Originally Posted by vivo

ok what's in Newark?

An Airport.

I suppose if you spend a 1 hour layover in NY or Newark it gets counted in this particular data. Which would make the list extremely misleading.

[seanCa]

Originally Posted by rainrock

An Airport.

I suppose if you spend a 1 hour layover in NY or Newark it gets counted in this particular data. Which would make the list extremely misleading.

It's not misleading. It's accurate and in-depth if you actually read the report. The data only collects information from travelers exiting the airport to their final destination. Not layovers.

Anyone who has traveled into a different country knows that the data is collected by immigration before you exit the airport.

Newark = more than likely people going into New York City.