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  1. Colorado Tourism Sets All-Time Records for Eighth Consecutive Year

    DENVER ( June 28, 2018) - The Colorado Tourism Office (CTO) today announced that Colorado continued an eight-year streak of record-setting growth in visitors, traveler spending and tax generation in 2017. New studies show Colorado last year attracted 84.7 million U.S.-based travelers plus nearly 1 million international visitors who ...

  2. Colorado's Tourism Economy Saw Growth in 2021 According to Annual

    Colorado's tourism industry has seen growth in the past year as the state bounces back stronger than before the pandemic according to new reports. The Colorado Tourism Office (CTO) announced today that the state's tourism industry is starting to bounce back with travel spending increasing 41.8 percent from $15.4 billion in 2020 to $21.9 billion in 2021.

  3. Tourism is major driver of Colorado economy. Here's why

    What's Working: Tourism is a major driver of the Colorado economy. But it's not all organic. Colorado tourism needed safekeepers. The state created an army of them. Plus: February unemployment rate is the highest in two years and it could end up at 4% by year's end, says economist.

  4. Colorado Tourism Industry Reports Record Economic Impact in 2022

    DENVER, CO, July 28, 2023 — The Colorado Tourism Office (CTO), a division of the Colorado Office of Economic Development and International Trade (OEDIT), released today the annual tourism industry research reports for 2022 from Dean Runyan Associates and Longwoods International. Colorado saw a record high of $27.7 billion in travel spending ...

  5. Colorado tourism industry rebounds in 2021, but remains below 2019 traffic

    Colorado's tourism businesses hosted 84.2 million trips in 2021, up 14% from 2020 but down from the high of 86.9 million trips in 2019. Leisure travel led the rebound in 2021 while business trips, convention groups and international travel remained down. Of the eight travel regions in Colorado, half have not recovered to 2019 levels.

  6. Colorado tourism hit $27.7 billion in 2022, report shows

    According to the report, Colorado travel spending grew to $27.7 billion in 2022 from $22.1 billion in 2021, an increase of 25%. Take into account the purchasing power of the dollar associated with recent inflation, however, and the true quantity of goods and services purchased by travelers increased only 11.8%.

  7. Findings of 2019 Colorado Tourism Office Research

    Statewide Visitation Up 2%, With Discretionary Leisure Travel Up 7%, highlights from "Colorado Travel Year 2019," Longwoods International, June 2020In 2019, Colorado welcomed a combined total of 86.9 million overnight and day visitors, up 2 percent from 2018. These included a record 39.0 million overnight visitors, up 3 percent from 37.8 million in 2018.Day travel to and within Colorado ...

  8. Tourism Pays

    Visitors to Colorado spent $26.1 billion in 2022. The state welcomed 90 million visitors (38.4 million overnight) in 2022. The tourism industry supports more than 176,800 jobs in Colorado (2022). Tourism saves every Colorado household $763.08 annually in taxes (this is the amount of tax dollars residents would have to pay if not for the nearly ...

  9. Travel and Tourism Statistics

    Travel and Tourism Statistics. At the State Publications Library we often receive questions regarding statistical information on travel and tourism in Colorado. The best place to find this information is in the annual Colorado Travel Year… report, compiled by Longwoods International for the Colorado Tourism Office. The report, issued each May ...

  10. PDF Colorado Travel Impacts

    · The Colorado travel industry experienced a 7.3 percent increase in travel spending from the previous year in current dollars. Since 2009, travel spending in real (inflation-adjusted) dollars has increased by 6.0 percent per year. $10 $12 $14 $16 $18 $20 $22 $24 $26

  11. Tourism Facts and Figures

    In 2022, 19.9 million overnight visitors spent $9.4 billion in Denver. Direct visitor spending benefits hotels, retailers, restaurants, attractions, transportation services and other businesses, and supports jobs for 74,630 people in metro Denver. Download highlights of the latest visitor statistics for Denver compiled by Longwoods International.

  12. Colorado hits new tourism record: 86 million visitors, $1.28 billion in

    The Colorado Tourism Office has a lot to show for its relatively unchanged, year-over-year budget of $19.6 million — which will only increase by about $500,000 for the next fiscal year beginning ...

  13. 'Hoping for a record year': Colorado's 2022 tourism season looks bright

    The 2021 tourism numbers aren't available yet, but they are sure to be better than the dismal tourism year the pandemic wrought in 2020. Colorado's travel industry saw a 36% drop in travel spending, from a record $24.2 billion in 2019 to $15.4 billion in 2020.

  14. Denver Tourism Continues Strong Growth in 2023

    DENVER (July 15, 2024) - Today VISIT DENVER, the City of Denver's official tourism sales and marketing agency, announced that in 2023 Denver welcomed a record 37.4 million domestic visitors, a 3% increase over the previous record set in 2022.This record number of visitors also spent more money in Denver than ever before, generating $10.3 billion in tourism revenue, outpacing last year's ...

  15. Visit Denver reports strong growth in tourism in 2023

    The Mile High City welcomed 37.4 million visitors and generated $10.3 billion in tourism revenue last year. The amount of visitors flocking to Denver increased by 3% last year, bringing in $10.3 ...

  16. Colorado Tourism Sets All-Time Records for Sixth Consecutive Year

    Underscoring the importance of tourism for Colorado residents, the state's travel industry generated $1.2 billion in local and state tax revenues in 2016, an increase of 7.3 percent from 2015. To replace those visitor taxes would have required an additional $216 tax payment from each of Colorado's 5.56 million residents.

  17. 2021 Pikes Peak Region Visitation & Spending Surpass 2020 and 2019

    Colorado Springs, Colo. - June 28, 2022 - In 2021, 23.7 million people visited the Pikes Peak Region spending $2.6 billion, based on an annual visitor profile study from Longwoods International. Visitation was up 12% over 2020 and 5% over 2019, and spending was up 18% over 2020 and 3% over 2019.

  18. Colorado's Tourism Economy Saw Growth in 2021 ...

    Total tourism spend in 2021 finished at $21.9 billion in 2021, bouncing back from $15.4 billion in 2020 but still down from the record-setting year of 2019 where the state saw $24.2 billion in traveler spending. Travel-generated state and local tax revenue reached approximately $670 per Colorado household in 2021.

  19. Denver Tourism Surges to a Record 36M+ Visitors in 2022

    DENVER (June 21, 2023) - In 2022, Denver welcomed a record 36.3 million visitors, marking a 15 percent increase over 2021 and surpassing all historic tourism totals by a large margin. A record number of visitors also spent more money in Denver than ever before, generating $9.4 billion in tourism revenue, far beyond the previous record of $7 ...

  20. Tourism

    The hospitality industry was Colorado's second-largest employer in 2016, with travel spending generating more than 165,000 jobs and earnings of $5.8 billion. And tourism is expected to generate more Colorado jobs (12,100) in 2017 than any other industry, including education/health services and construction.

  21. Colorado Tourism Sets All-time Visitor Spending Record in 2018

    Research notes Colorado is top-ranked state destination for sustainable travel. DENVER (Aug. 8, 2019) - The Colorado Tourism Office (CTO) announced today that travelers set an all-time spending record of $22.3 billion on Colorado trips and vacations in 2018, a 6.7 percent increase from 2017, significantly above the national average spending ...

  22. Colorado Tourism Office Research

    The Dean Runyan Associates report provides insights into the economic impact of the tourism industry in Colorado. Information is available related to travel spending, tourism-related employment, and state and local tax revenue. The information is provided for the state, the travel regions, and the 64 Colorado counties. Economic Impact of Travel ...

  23. Tourism Pays

    Tourism Pays for Denver and Colorado. Tourism is the second-largest industry in the City & County of Denver, and in the state of Colorado. ... On average in 2023, the biggest spenders were leisure travelers, who spent $428 per day, while business visitors spent $433 per day. Day visitors spent $88 per day. ... Colorado Travel Impacts 2023 ...

  24. Pikes Peak Region Visitation & Spending Continue to Rise

    Total visitation was 24 million, up from 23.7 million in 2021, and total spending was $2.8 billion, up from $2.6 billion in 2021. The 2021 Longwoods study showed spending and visitation were even higher than they were in 2019, which was a record year prior to the pandemic. Now, the 2022 findings show even more growth from 2019.

  25. Colorado Tourism Sets All-Time Records for Visitation and Spending in

    Underscoring the importance of tourism for Colorado residents, the state's travel industry generated $1.13 billion in local and state tax revenues in 2015, an increase of 6.8 percent from 2014. To replace those visitor taxes would have required an additional $207 tax payment from each of Colorado's 5.46 million residents.