Residence to Disney World, Common Orlando Resort, SeaWorld Orlando and lots of different sights, town of Orlando, Florida, was named the biggest U.S. journey and tourism metropolis vacation spot for 2022 by the World Journey & Tourism Council.
The town earned over $31 billion final 12 months from tourism, representing 20% of town’s complete gross home product, the Cities Financial Affect Report by the WTTC stated. The vacation spot made a comeback from the pandemic, having earned greater than 2019’s financial contribution by $2.7 billion.
Following Orlando was Las Vegas, with a direct GDP contribution of $23 billion. Different main U.S. cities like Miami and New York Metropolis additionally surpassed 2019 degree contributions, the report stated, proving that these cities “stay iconic locations.”
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“It was a fightback 12 months for cities throughout the nation in 2022. Locations like Orlando, Miami, Chicago and Las Vegas are again stronger than ever earlier than due to the comfort of pandemic restrictions and a powerful rebound of client confidence,” stated WTTC President and CEO Julia Simpson in an announcement.
As of November 2022, Florida noticed a rise in guests – welcoming 104.5 million vacationers – greater than it noticed in 2019.
Orlando was additionally the one main metropolis vacation spot to not solely have sturdy spending by home vacationers however worldwide vacationers as properly. In 2022, its worldwide customer spending surpassed its 2019 numbers by nearly 20%.
“Different common vacation locations like San Francisco, Honolulu and Washington, D.C., are following swimsuit with rising sector GDP contributions which are properly on their technique to recovering from peak pandemic lows,” Simpson added.
To give you the most important vacationer locations for the Cities Financial Affect Report, researchers from Oxford Economics analyzed key journey and tourism metrics, equivalent to contribution to GDP, traveler spending and employment, for 82 cities internationally. The report was sponsored by Visa.