Miami Beckons to Gays: Visit the Gay Riviera

Orlando Sentinel ^ | 2/13/02 | Maya Bell

[EternalVigilance]

Soooo...I guess the question that needs to be asked is:

Is this really a hurricane warning?

;-)

[laureldrive]

I hear Sodom had a similar marketing campaign going, but the brochures were all destroyed along with the rest of the community.

[habs4ever]

Did you notice a whopper, an estimated $54 BILLION a year travel gay industry in the US alone?? Hmmmmmm....let me guess that the reporter wasn't force fed some bogus stat or is also gay??

[CityGirl]

My husband and I were in Key West last November - you must have seen us driving a rented white Dodge Neon from Alamo! Hope we didn't scare you too badly (PS you're absolutely right about the cruise ship passengers)

[CityGirl]

Hello from Savannah (slightly outside of it anyway) but I work for the City's Water and Sewer Bureau. Hope you come back soon, I've live here 15 years and still discover new things in the historic district all the time. And we sure need all the sales tax revenue we can get!

[Looking for Diogenes]

Did you notice a whopper, an estimated $54 BILLION a year travel gay industry in the US alone?

It seems excessive, until you realize that the tourism industry is huge, $749 billion annually. So $54 billion is less than 15% of that total.

Direct tourism sales of $397 billion resulted in total direct and indirect sales of $749 billion.
Bureau of Economic Analysis

[habs4ever]

Use the first number as the larger of the two is too easily manipulated.Still works out to being around 20% of the total.I dunno ;-)

[Looking for Diogenes]

Gay issues aside, it is astonishing how much money is spent on tourism. In the above statistic, the direct costs are how much is spent at restaurants, hotels, etc. The indirect costs are what the restaurants, etc, pay to their suppliers.

They are still statistics, and all statistics can be manipulated. In this case, the Department of Commerce compiles statistics about every industry, so they presumably have little reason to skew them one way or another. I have no idea where the $54 billion number in the article comes from.

[JPR_Boise_ID]

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