Last year Los Angeles saw Chinese tourism boom
China Daily | Updated: 2019-05-11 07:02
US county benefits from $24 billion tourist spending, supporting over half a million jobs
LOS ANGELES - China was a key contributor to Los Angeles' record tourism revenue in 2018, said a US official following the release of a new report on Tuesday.
Visitors pumped an all-time high of $23.9 billion into the economy of Los Angeles County on the US west coast in 2018, generating a record $36.6 billion in total economic impact, according to the report released by the Los Angeles Tourism and Convention Board.
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