NEW YORK - The famous "I love NY" tourist T-shirts may have to be changed to "All 52 million of us love NY."
That's how many people visited the Big Apple in 2012, setting a new
record that broke the previous year's milestone of 50 million.
New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg touted the success on Monday, ahead of
the annual mega-street party for the dropping of the New Year's ball on
Times Square.
He said 41 million visitors were
from inside the United States and 11 million from abroad, altogether
generating about $55.3 billion in revenue and keeping New York in top
place for US travel destinations, with 33 percent of the overseas market
share.
"New York City continues to attract
people from all around the world who want to experience our unique
culture, food, parks, shopping, arts and energy," Bloomberg said. "We
are well on our way to achieving our new goal of 55 million visitors and
$70 billion in economic impact by 2015." —Agence France-Presse
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