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Travel and tourism satellite account for 2018-2022.

The travel and tourism industry—as measured by the real output of goods and services sold directly to visitors—increased 21.0 percent in 2022 after increasing 53.6 percent in 2021, according to the most recent statistics from BEA’s Travel and Tourism Satellite Account.

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• U.S. Travel and Tourism Satellite Account for 2018–2022 By Hunter Arcand and Paul Kern - Survey of Current Business April 2024
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• "U.S. Travel and Tourism Satellite Account for 2015-2017" By Sarah Osborne and Seth Markowitz - Survey of Current Business June 2018
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The 2022 National Travel and Tourism Strategy was released on June 6, 2022, by U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina M. Raimondo on behalf of the Tourism Policy Council (TPC). The new strategy focuses the full efforts of the federal government to promote the United States as a premier destination grounded in the breadth and diversity of our communities, and to foster a sector that drives economic growth, creates good jobs, and bolsters conservation and sustainability. Drawing on engagement and capabilities from across the federal government, the strategy aims to support broad-based economic growth in travel and tourism across the United States, its territories, and the District of Columbia.

The federal government will work to implement the strategy under the leadership of the TPC and in partnership with the private sector, aiming toward an ambitious five-year goal of increasing American jobs by attracting and welcoming 90 million international visitors, who we estimate will spend $279 billion, annually by 2027.

The new National Travel and Tourism Strategy supports growth and competitiveness for an industry that, prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, generated $1.9 trillion in economic output and supported 9.5 million American jobs. Also, in 2019, nearly 80 million international travelers visited the United States and contributed nearly $240 billion to the U.S. economy, making the United States the global leader in revenue from international travel and tourism. As the top services export for the United States that year, travel and tourism generated a $53.4 billion trade surplus and supported 1 million jobs in the United States.

The strategy follows a four-point approach:

• Promoting the United States as a Travel Destination Goal : Leverage existing programs and assets to promote the United States to international visitors and broaden marketing efforts to encourage visitation to underserved communities.
• Facilitating Travel to and Within the United States Goal : Reduce barriers to trade in travel services and make it safer and more efficient for visitors to enter and travel within the United States.
• Ensuring Diverse, Inclusive, and Accessible Tourism Experiences Goal : Extend the benefits of travel and tourism by supporting the development of diverse tourism products, focusing on under-served communities and populations. Address the financial and workplace needs of travel and tourism businesses, supporting destination communities as they grow their tourism economies. Deliver world-class experiences and customer service at federal lands and waters that showcase the nation’s assets while protecting them for future generations.
• Fostering Resilient and Sustainable Travel and Tourism Goal : Reduce travel and tourism’s contributions to climate change and build a travel and tourism sector that is resilient to natural disasters, public health threats, and the impacts of climate change. Build a sustainable sector that integrates protecting natural resources, supporting the tourism economy, and ensuring equitable development.

Travel and Tourism Fast Facts

• The travel and tourism industry supported 9.5 million American jobs through $1.9 trillion of economic activity in 2019. In fact, 1 in every 20 jobs in the United States was either directly or indirectly supported by travel and tourism. These jobs can be found in industries like lodging, food services, arts, entertainment, recreation, transportation, and education.
• Travel and tourism was the top services export for the United States in 2019, generating a $53.4 billion trade surplus.
• The travel and tourism industry was one of the U.S. business sectors hardest hit by the COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent health and travel restrictions, with travel exports decreasing nearly 65% from 2019 to 2020. 
• The decline in travel and tourism contributed heavily to unemployment; leisure and hospitality lost 8.2 million jobs between February and April 2020 alone, accounting for 37% of the decline in overall nonfarm employment during that time. 
• By 2021, the rollout of vaccines and lifting of international and domestic restrictions allowed travel and tourism to begin its recovery. International arrivals to the United States grew to 22.1 million in 2021, up from 19.2 million in 2020. Spending by international visitors also grew, reaching $81.0 billion, or 34 percent of 2019’s total.

More about the Tourism Policy Council and the 2022 National Travel and Tourism Strategy

Created by Congress and chaired by Secretary Raimondo, the Tourism Policy Council (TPC) is the interagency council charged with coordinating national policies and programs relating to travel and tourism. At the direction of Secretary Raimondo, the TPC created a new five-year strategy to focus U.S. government efforts in support of the travel and tourism sector which has been deeply and disproportionately affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.

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American Customer Satisfaction Index for internet travel companies U.S. 2002-2024

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American Customer Satisfaction Index scores for lodging companies in the United States from 2008 to 2024, by company

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Leading museums by highest attendance worldwide 2019-2022

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Most recommended landmarks by visitors in the United States as of September 2022

City tourism

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• Basic Statistic Selected cities with the highest hotel rates in the U.S. as of September 2023
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City destinations with the highest direct travel and tourism GDP worldwide 2022

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World's highest-priced business travel destinations Q4 2023

Most expensive cities for business tourism worldwide in 4th quarter 2023, by average daily costs (in U.S. dollars)

Selected cities with the highest hotel rates in the U.S. as of September 2023

Selected cities with the most expensive hotel rates in the United States as of September 2023 (in U.S. dollars)

Most affordable cities for backpacking in the U.S. 2024, by daily price

Most affordable cities for backpacking in the United States as of January 2024, by daily price (in U.S. dollars)

Average price per night of Airbnb listings in selected U.S. cities 2024

Average price per night of Airbnb listings in selected cities in the United States as of February 2024 (in U.S. dollars)

Number of Airbnb listings in selected U.S. cities 2024

Number of Airbnb listings in selected cities in the United States as of February 2024

Sustainable tourism

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• Premium Statistic Share of travelers that plan to make sustainable travel choices in the U.S. 2022
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• Premium Statistic U.S. consumers who have paid extra for sustainable travel in the past two years 2022
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• Premium Statistic Share of U.S. travelers that feel guilty over non-eco-friendly past travel 2022
• Premium Statistic Reasons travelers were against staying in sustainable hotels in the U.S. 2022

Travelers who find sustainable travel important in the U.S. 2022

Share of travelers that think sustainable travel is important in the United States as of February 2022

Share of travelers that plan to make sustainable travel choices in the U.S. 2022

Share of travelers that intend to make more sustainable travel decisions in the United States as of March 2022

How much more travelers would pay to make a trip more sustainable in the U.S. 2022

Extra cost travelers would be willing to pay to make a trip more carbon friendly in the United States as of March 2022

U.S. consumers who have paid extra for sustainable travel in the past two years 2022

Share of consumers that have paid extra for sustainable travel in the past two years in the United States as of February 2022

U.S. consumers willing to pay extra for a sustainable travel provider 2022

Share of consumers willing to pay extra for a sustainable travel provider in the United States as of February 2022

Share of U.S. travelers that feel guilty over non-eco-friendly past travel 2022

Share of travelers that experience guilt over past trips not being sustainable in the United States as of August 2022

Reasons travelers were against staying in sustainable hotels in the U.S. 2022

Reasons travelers were against staying in a hotel with sustainable practices in the United States as of August 2022

• Premium Statistic Priorities when choosing a leisure travel destination in the U.S. 2023, by generation
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Main factors for choosing a leisure travel destination among adults in the United States as of May 2023, by generation

Leading destinations travelers intend to visit in the next 12 months in the U.S. 2023

Leading leisure travel destinations travelers intend to go to in the next 12 months in the United States as of September 2023

Trust in travel and hospitality brands in the U.S. 2023, by brand type

Level of trust in travel and hospitality brands in the United States as of September 2023, by brand type

American Customer Satisfaction Index: travel and tourism industries in the U.S. 2024

American Customer Satisfaction Index for the travel and tourism sector in the United States in 2024, by industry

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The Department of Justice is taking a closer look at Alterra Mountain Co.’s planned acquisition of Arapahoe Basin ski area . 

The department has requested information from the ski area and the 18-resort Alterra Mountain Co., as well as annual surveys and studies of the resort industry conducted by Boulder’s RRC Associates for the National Ski Areas Association. 

“It’s taking time,” said Alan Henceroth, the longtime boss at Arapahoe Basin, who described the information requested by the federal government as demographics of visitors, visitation numbers, financial information and “all the business issues” involving the ski area. 

Alterra Mountain Co., which owns the Steamboat ski area and operates the city of Denver-owned Winter Park ski area, in February announced its plan to buy the 1,428-acre Arapahoe Basin from Dream Unlimited Corp, the Canadian real estate investment trust that has owned the Summit County ski area since 1998. 

The Justice Department served the National Ski Areas Association and market research firm RRC Associates with civil investigative demands earlier this month. The inquiries seek data from RRC’s annual surveys of U.S. ski areas, including the NSAA’s yearly Kottke Report as well as demographic and economic analyses of the resort industry. In a letter to NSAA’s member resorts in the Rocky Mountains, the association on June 26 said it had worked with the federal government to narrow the scope of its inquiry to just ski areas in the association’s six-state Rocky Mountain Region. 

The letter, first reported by Matthew Scott with the website Snowology , promised that NSAA was “determined to maintain the strictest confidentiality” in providing the information “to ensure that the information is used for the good of all the membership.” The annual reports are not available to the public. 

“We are assured that the Department of Justice is bound by statute to maintain the confidentiality of this data as well, and they have further represented to us that none of it should ever be disclosed in any public document or forum,” reads the letter from NSAA sent to select members. 

The U.S. Attorney General’s Office in Colorado declined to comment on the inquiry. RRC Associates declined to comment as well. Executives with the National Ski Areas Association did not immediately return emails or texts Thursday.

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Alterra Mountain Co. emailed a statement saying a filing with the Justice Department was “customary given the size of the transaction.”

“We are working through the process, but we cannot otherwise comment on the state of the ongoing review with the DOJ,” reads the statement. The company declined to say if its previous acquisitions since forming in 2018 have been investigated by the Justice Department.

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But it is not the first time that the federal government has had antitrust issues with ski area consolidation in Colorado. 

The Colorado attorney general and the Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division in 1996 sued in U.S. District Court in Denver seeking to block Vail Resorts’ acquisition of Arapahoe Basin. Vail Resorts in 1996 announced a $310 million deal to buy Breckenridge, Keystone and Arapahoe Basin ski areas from Ralston Resorts, Inc. The civil lawsuit forced Vail Resorts to sell Arapahoe Basin to a Canadian real estate firm that became Dream Unlimited. 

The suit filed by the federal government in 1996 argued that Vail Resorts’ acquisition of Arapahoe Basin would have “lessened competition substantially in the Front Range skier market.” In 1996, Ralston’s three Summit County ski areas accounted for 26% of visits from Front Range skiers, and Vail Resorts’  Vail and Beaver Creek ski areas in Eagle County accounted for about 12% of Front Range skier traffic. 

Vail Resorts selling Arapahoe Basin “will prevent Front Range skiers from paying higher lift ticket prices,” reads a January 1997 statement from the Department of Justice . 

Arapahoe Basin was the first ski area not owned by Vail Resorts to join the company’s Epic Pass. The ski area offered unlimited access to Epic Pass skiers from 1998 to 2019, but the resort’s parking lots were overwhelmed  with crowds and Henceroth dropped the Epic Pass for  Alterra Mountain Co.’s Ikon Pass partner program, offering skiers either five or seven days of access. 

Henceroth earlier this week told his loyal skiers that Ikon Pass access for the 2024-25 ski season would remain at five and seven days. There are 12 ski areas within a couple hours drive from Denver and eight of those ski areas are available to skiers using the Epic or Ikon passes. And those eight — Arapahoe Basin, Beaver Creek, Breckenridge, Copper Mountain, Eldora, Keystone, Vail and Winter Park — easily host more than half of Colorado’s annual skier visits.  

While the Department of Justice review is delaying the deal, Henceroth said the Forest Service is reviewing the transfer of Arapahoe Basin’s special use permit to Alterra Mountain Co. 

The Forest Service review is going well, Henceroth said, but it can’t be finalized until the Justice Department completes its analysis. 

“Once the Department of Justice is done, I think the closing will happen very quickly,” he said. “I know Dream is ready to get it done.”

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Uttar pradesh tourism department has teamed up with makemytrip to promote tourism in the state. this partnership aims to utilize consumer trends and supply-side data for future policy-making. makemytrip will help tourists planning trips and provide packages to explore local areas, aiding in the growth of up's tourism..

The Uttar Pradesh Tourism Department announced on Friday a partnership with online travel giant MakeMyTrip aimed at promoting tourism within the state.

Under a newly signed memorandum of understanding, MakeMyTrip will assist the local government by providing vital insights into consumer trends, tourist preferences, and supply-side information—data that will prove invaluable for future policy-making, according to the department's statement.

"Uttar Pradesh has immense potential for tourism and MakeMyTrip will be a partner in realizing this potential," stated Mukesh Kumar Meshram, the Principal Secretary of the Department of Tourism and Culture for UP. Online travel insights from MakeMyTrip will benefit tourists interested in eco-tourism, adventure tourism, and spiritual tourism.

Meshram added that tourists often explore nearby areas and purchase local goods, promoting local economies. MakeMyTrip will support these tourists by creating tailored travel packages.

Rajesh Magow, Co-founder and Group CEO of MakeMyTrip, said, "Our goal is to collaborate with UP tourism by leveraging our platform's insights and the availability of hotels and homestays to boost tourism in the state. We are confident that this public-private partnership will meet our shared objectives."

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Two Kunak supermarkets fined RM10,000 each for water theft

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Wednesday, 03 Jul 2024

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Kunak Water Department enforcement team found an illegal connection at one of the supermarkets in the district on Tuesday (July 2).

KOTA KINABALU: Two supermarkets in Kunak were each made RM10,000 poorer for illegally connecting and tampering with water pumps.

According to Kunak district Water Department works officer Mohd Mohd Suhaizan Mohd Yunus, the offences were discovered by an enforcement team during an operation at 9am on Tuesday (July 2) following a tip-off.

He said one of the supermarkets was found using a 5cm pipe to connect directly from the department’s main pipe to its premises.

“This pipe was detected channelling water to the supermarket premises without passing through the provided meter.

“The fine was imposed under Section 49(b) of the Sabah State Water Supply Enactment 2003,” he said on Wednesday (July 3).

The other supermarket was found using a tampered water pump to draw additional supply, punishable under Section 59 of the same enactment.

Suhaizan advised consumers to use water legally and refrain from putting up illegal connections.

"The public is also urged to notify us of any water theft or leaking pipes through our careline number 088-326888,” he said.

Tags / Keywords: Sabah , Kunak , Water Department , Supermarkets , Fined , Water Theft , Illegal Connections , Water Pump , Sabah State Water Supply Enactment 2003

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