New York City Projects Record-Breaking Visitors as U.S. Inbound Travel Cools
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The picture of U.S. inbound travel overall is not particularly bright. But New York City has proved uniquely equipped to weather the storm.
There's a bright spot in the U.S. tourism picture, and it's New York City. The city's destination marketing arm, NYC & Company, reports that New York is on track to reach a record number of visitors in 2019, just shy of 67 million.
The figure is a 2.8 percent increase from 2018, and the city's 10th consecutive year of growth in arrivals. An email to members noted that the trend of visitors was "outpacing the U.S. overall." It also reported that international arrivals are on the uptick, with an expected 13.9 million
