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We all know that Hawaii benefits from a great deal of tourism from all over the world, but what other locations in the USA are popular? Where do the most tourists to the US come from? Questions and statistics like these fall under the domain of the OTTI. The OTTI is Office of Travel and Tourism Industries of the U.S. Department of Commerce. Most every country maintains an office of tourism of some nature, and the OTTI is the official such entity of the USA. Its role is that of “expanding travel and tourism business opportunities for employment and economic growth.” 

The primary functions of the OTTI are to:

• Manage the US travel & tourism statistical system and be the authoritative resource for such data
• Design and administer an international tourism promotion program
• Develop and maintain tourism policy and strategy
• Provide technical assistance in expanding tourism

For example, comprehensive 2007 US tourism data is available on OTTI’s website, as well as 2008 and other years, where you can learn that the country that sends the most tourists to the US is Canada. Makes sense, eh? What other countries made the top 10? And what US States were the most popular for tourists? Where does Hawaii rank? You can find out on the OTTI’s website. 

The efforts of the OTTI play a valuable part in bringing more tourism to Kapalua, Maui, which helps our community grow strong.

This entry was posted on Wednesday, November 19th, 2008 at 4:01 pm and is filed under Hawaii Vacation, Kapalua, Tourism, Travel. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.