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- <text id=90TT0452>
- <title>
- Feb. 19, 1990: Business Notes:Tourism
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
- Feb. 19, 1990 Starting Over
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- BUSINESS, Page 73
- Business Notes
- TOURISM
- Vacation Hot Spot: the U.S.
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p> The U.S. suffered a trade deficit of $115 billion last year,
- but Americans can take consolation from the tidy sum they are
- earning from foreigners in a service-oriented business:
- tourism. Last week the Government reported the first-ever U.S.
- travel surplus. During 1989 foreign visitors spent $34.3
- billion in the U.S., or $450 million more than Americans spent
- abroad. The U.S. Travel and Tourism Administration predicts
- that in 1990 the surplus will exceed $1.5 billion.
- </p>
- <p> Canada and Mexico topped the guest list, sending 24.5
- million visitors between them. Next were the Japanese, with 3
- million tourists. But the Japanese spent more on their trips
- than any other group, a total of $6 billion, compared with $4.8
- billion for the second-place Canadians. The No. 1 destination
- among all visitors to America: Walt Disney World in Orlando.
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
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