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Chapter 2 Travel Destinations and Expenditures

Chapter 2 Travel Destinations and Expenditures

Tourism is an enormous worldwide industry. In 2004, Japanese visitors’ expenditures were largely responsible for the U.S. travel and passenger fare expenditures surplus (see table 2.1). They spent almost $10 billion dollars more in the...