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| Content Type | 1 |
| Title | Article: America the Unwelcoming |
| Body | From http://www.newsweek.com/id/70991/page/1 America the Unwelcoming: The United States is the only major country in the world to which travel has declined amid a tourist boom. Fareed Zakaria Nov 26, 2007 According to the Commerce Department, the United States is the only major country in the world to which travel has declined in the midst of a global tourism boom. And this is not about Arabs or Muslims. The number of Japanese visiting the United States declined from 5 million in 2000 to 3.6 million last year. The numbers have begun to increase, but by 2010 they're still projected to be 19 percent below 2000 levels. During this same span (2000–2010), global tourism is expected to grow by 44 percent. Business travel to the United States declined by 10 percent between 2004 and 2005 (the most recent data available), while similar travel to Europe increased by 8 percent. Discover America, a travel-industry-funded organization that tries to boost tourism, estimates that the 17 percent overall decline in tourism since 9/11 has cost America $94 billion in lost tourist spending, 200,000 jobs and $16 billion in tax revenues. Read the entire article at http://www.newsweek.com/id/70991/page/1 . A print-ready version is available at http://www.newsweek.com/id/70991/output/print . |
| Source | Newsweek |
| Inputdate | 2007-11-24 06:31:57 |
| Lastmodifieddate | 2007-11-24 06:31:57 |
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| Publishdate | 2007-11-26 00:00:00 |
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