Record Number of Overseas Visitors Coming to United States
August 12, 2008 by Deborah Boza-Va... commentRecord Number of Overseas Visitors Coming to United States - Visitors experience America and bring abundant benefits
By Victoria Colette Reynolds, Special Correspondent
Washington -- Despite increasing airfares due to rising fuel prices, record numbers of international travelers are coming to America.
It’s a bargain for people outside the United States to come here. Hotel room rates in New York, for example, are up 11 percent in dollar terms, but only a mere 1.5 percent increase when calculated in euros, according to Bobby Bowers of Smith Travel Research in Hendersonville, Tennessee.
“Once you’re here, in terms of staying in a hotel, it’s cheap,” Bowers said. “Alternatively, for those traveling from the U.K. to Paris, [they] won’t find the value [they would] get by going to places like Orlando [Florida] or [Washington] D.C.” For the rest of the story....
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