Increasing the number of tours in the USA

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Country USA with the city of New York is one of the city's favorite destination for tourist visits.
Has not been recently The U.S. Department of Commerce announced penjingkatan going tourists from abroad to the United States. In 2008, overseas arrivals to the United States at 6 per cent growth rate. For the sixth year New York State is the top destination visited by foreign tourists. California holds the second position. Florida remains in third position, but because the land involved and the realization of double-digit growth for the second straight year. Nevada, Hawaii, Illinois, Massachusetts, and followed up 3 countries visited. The double-digit increase in 2008 by seven of 21 countries / areas in which estimates are available. New York, Illinois, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and all records set for visits to foreign countries in 2008.

Top cities visited by overseas tourists in 2008 are: New York City, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Miami, Orlando, Las Vegas, Honolulu, Washington, DC, Chicago and Boston. 20 visits from city estimates issued, posted nine double-digit increases. New York City continued over the place and has posted growth for the fifth straight year. New York City, Chicago, Philadelphia and set a new record visits in 2008, and only three of the city registered a decline.

This year, the Office of Travel & Tourism Industries (OTTI) was able to report more goal to visit the annual estimates based on a sample of overseas and Mexican air travelers, the biggest sample since 1999. In addition, the OTTI some work with the goal to improve the data collected at their local airport, and increase weight. The sample increases and other improvements to enable a better analysis of the shift happening in the U.S. international market. These changes, in turn, impact on the destination visited.

Destination visits akan estimates released to the public for 21 countries and 20 cities, increasing slightly more than the estimated amount spent in 2007. Estimates for the limited purpose of visit is a result of the OTTI statistical policy implemented in 2006. Policy requires a minimum of 400 survey respondents to estimate the public. This is to help ensure the quality of the estimates. Changes in a country or city traffic estimates vary from year to year because of the influence in the country and divert traffic changes in the characteristics of visitors from abroad. For example, the decline in travel to Hawaii / Honolulu due principally to the overall decline in travel by Japanese visitors account the main part of the Hawaii visitors from overseas.

Similarly, other changes in key traveler characteristics may also affect the official visits, such as, business versus leisure, the number of the visited destination, and / or travel use in transportation in the country. In 2008, several key shifts in traveler characteristics that occur compared to the year 2007 and for several years that may affect the destination visited include: 1) as a holiday destination travel increased for the first time in three years than a decrease in business and tourists who visit friends and family ; 2) a decrease in market share of visitors who use the travel package to visit for four straight years; 3) a decrease in the percentage of tourists who visit only one place while in the country, after six straight years increased; 4) a shift of transportation used while in the U.S., for more rental cars and trains across the city.