Industry Stats: Hawaii, Illinois, and Pennsylvania Have Biggest Budgets; Colorado ranked 30th.
Trent Blizzard | 25 July 2005 |
WASHINGTON, DC – States plan to spend $602.7 million for travel and tourism development and promotion in fiscal year 2004-5, according to the Travel Industry Association of America (TIA) 2004-5 Survey of U.S. State and Territory Office Budgets. The figure increased 10.6 percent compared to last year’s actual budget. The survey includes responses from 47 states. Delaware, Indiana, New York, the five U.S. territories, and Washington, DC did not submit data.
The projected budgets for fiscal year 2004-5 range from $69 million in Hawaii to $1.7 million in Rhode Island. Indicative of tourism continuing recovery, the majority of reporting states saw significant increases in their budgets. Most notable was Oregon, whose budget increased 134 percent from $3.99 million to $9.34 million.
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