How many billions of dollars does the U.S. make from the tourism industry? I read that Switzerland makes 1.5 billion and wondered how America compared, but couldn't find a statistic anywhere.

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USA makes about $75billion + a year. Domestic tourism is separate. Some information that may help: Figures are to be read as foloows. Sr. No., Country Name, Income from foreign tourists in 2002, 2003 and 2004Rank (2004) Nation Billions of USD (2002) Billions of USD (2003) Change (2003/2002) Billions of USD (2004) Change (2004/2003) 1 United States 66.7 64.5 -3.3% 74.5 15.5% 2 Spain 33.8 41.8 23.6% 45.2 8.1% 3 France 32.7 37.0 13.1% 40.8 10.3% 4 Italy 26.9 31.2 16.2% 35.7 14.4% 5 Germany 19.0 23.0 21.2% 27.7 20.4% 6 United Kingdom 20.5 22.8 10.7% 27.3 19.7% 7 China 20.4 17.4 -14.6% 25.7 47.7% 8 Turkey 11.9 13.2 10.9% 15.9 20.5% 9 Austria 11.2 14.1 25.2% 15.4 9.2% 10 Australia 10.3 12 11.7% 13.0 16.1%

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