Tourists spent a record $7.1B in the District last year

A record-number of Americans visited the District last year, helping boost tourist spending in the nation’s capital to an all-time high of $7.1 billion.

More than 19.3 million Americans came to the District in 2015, an increase of 1 million visitors, or 5.3 percent, from the year before, according to a report released Tuesday by Destination D.C., the District’s marketing arm. The data was compiled by McLean-based travel research firm D.K. Shifflet.

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