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Tourism has many faces. Some of the 77 million international visitors who traveled to the US last year came to experience our geographic beauty; others came to shop and be entertained; still others came for medical purposes or to attend a convention or an exhibition;...

Readers of this blog, or who work in the travel and tourism industry, already know that global tourism today is driven by the outbound Chinese travel market. At more than 130 million strong and rapidly growing, Chinese travelers are the world’s largest visitor group...

I’ve just returned from a 15-day sales mission to China. Conducted annually by the Orange County Visitors Association, we visited Tianjin, Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou and called on our top-producing, outbound tour operators and travel agencies, US and Chinese...

A report issued earlier this year by the World Travel and Tourism Council (WTTC) shows that travel and tourism remains resilient as people continue traveling despite the threats to the world and calls on governments to work on four areas to prepare for these crises to...

Most of you reading this blog probably have never heard of Brand USA, the public-private tourism marketing organization created in 2010 under the Travel Promotion Act.  You might wonder why you should care whether or not the organization is eliminated as President...

Travel marketers around the country are going all out to welcome the more than 77 million international visitors who are expected to arrive in the US this year. And with good reason: international visitors are big business.  Foreign visitors spend about 4 times per...