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Travel and tourism is helping to grow the region's economy and stimulate community vitality by showcasing Cleveland to consumers through leisure and business travel. In the short term, visitors are spending dollars as they come to the city, stay in hotels, eat in restaurants, shop local retail and utilize local services. In the long term, research shows that those who move to a new city likely had a favorable experience visiting that city in the past.
According to The Economic Impact of Tourism in Cuyahoga County, Ohio (June 2018) study completed by the research firm Tourism Economics, tourism sustains 8.2% of salaried employment in Cuyahoga County, including 68,300 jobs in 2017. Visitor spending generated a total economic impact of $8.8 billion in 2017 as tourism dollars flowed through the Cleveland economy.
What's all that mean? It means more visitors = a better Cleveland economy. Today, Cleveland's tourism economy is expected to outpace that of the U.S.
And we're just getting started. Since 2009, visits to Cleveland have grown by an average of close to 700,000 per year, reaching a high of 18.5 million in 2017.
See the impact for yourself in the Convention & Leisure Tourism Metrics Reports, linked below.