Despite economic hard times in the United States and various other regions of the world, the nation received a bit of good news this week when a report from the U.S. Department of Commerce revealed that international tourist visits to America were up, with visitors spending a record $153 billion in 2011 on “travel and tourism-related goods and services.”
The department reported a surge of “62 million international visitors ... to the United States, an increase of 2.5 million from the year before.”
