Unions and New York Democrats move to hobble city’s tourism
Leave it to unions and liberal politicians to suppress a good thing, in this case, New York City tourism. And then to replicate the errors.
Although the 62 million tourists who visited New York City last year didn’t quite beat the number of tourists the Big Apple attracted before the pandemic, the economic impact of tourism hit record highs, not adjusted for the worst inflation in 40 years, generating an estimated $74 billion overall and $48 billion in direct spending. Nearly 1 in 10 workers in the city, the single most visited destination in America, is employed by the tourism industry, and tourism generates an estimated $7 billion in local tax revenue and $5 billion in revenue to Albany.