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<text id=90TT0452>
<title>
Feb. 19, 1990: Business Notes:Tourism
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
Feb. 19, 1990 Starting Over
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<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
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BUSINESS, Page 73
Business Notes
TOURISM
Vacation Hot Spot: the U.S.
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<body>
<p> The U.S. suffered a trade deficit of $115 billion last year,
but Americans can take consolation from the tidy sum they are
earning from foreigners in a service-oriented business:
tourism. Last week the Government reported the first-ever U.S.
travel surplus. During 1989 foreign visitors spent $34.3
billion in the U.S., or $450 million more than Americans spent
abroad. The U.S. Travel and Tourism Administration predicts
that in 1990 the surplus will exceed $1.5 billion.
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<p> Canada and Mexico topped the guest list, sending 24.5
million visitors between them. Next were the Japanese, with 3
million tourists. But the Japanese spent more on their trips
than any other group, a total of $6 billion, compared with $4.8
billion for the second-place Canadians. The No. 1 destination
among all visitors to America: Walt Disney World in Orlando.
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