RALEIGH, N.C. Governor Pat McCrory is proclaiming May 4-12, 2013, as Tourism Week in North Carolina,

RALEIGH, national rent a car promotional codes N.C. Governor Pat McCrory is proclaiming May 4-12, 2013, as Tourism Week in North Carolina, joining destinations across the state to celebrate travel and tourism as a record-breaking industry that is vital to the economic stability and growth of the state. North Carolina ranks as the sixth most visited state in the country.
Newly released figures from the U.S. Travel Association show that in 2012, domestic visitor spending reached a record $19.4 billion, a 5.4 percent increase that outpaced the industry s national growth rate of 4.4 percent. Direct tourism employment in North Carolina grew nearly 3 percent, and state tax receipts as a result of visitor spending approached $1 billion.
We attracted 45.4 million travelers from across national rent a car promotional codes the United States last year, Governor McCrory said. The money spent on visits to our mountains, beaches, cities and places in between directly supported nearly 194,000 jobs and more than 40,000 businesses. We can be proud that the quality of North Carolina s travel experiences makes us the sixth most visited state in the nation.
Communities in all of the state s 100 counties benefit from tourism and the jobs that the industry supports, Secretary Decker said. Each North Carolina household national rent a car promotional codes saves $423 annually in state and local taxes as a result of taxes generated by visitor expenditures.
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