New York City saw a roughly 90% decline in visitors during the last quarter of fiscal year 2020, which ended June 30. “We haven’t lost our mojo as a city, but the pandemic has curbed what we can do to attract people from all over the world.”
The U.S. Open tennis tournament, New York Fall Fashion Week and the U.N. General Assembly meetings, which together attract nearly one million attendees and make every September an economic windfall for New York City, will be unrecognizable this year.
Tourism to the Big Apple has experienced record growth in the last decade, providing a boon to multiple sectors of the economy. In 2019, visitor spending supported more than 403,000 jobs and generated some $72 billion in total economic activity, according to a July report published by NYC & Company, the city’s official tourism agency. Last year, travel and tourism accounted for $7 billion in state and local taxes, including $4.9 billion for the city, according to the report.
Meanwhile, the U.N. General Assembly’s annual meeting of world leaders will take place Sept. 15-30 with no more than 200 New York-based diplomats likely permitted in the Midtown East headquarters, said Stéphane Dujarric, a spokesman for the U.N. Secretary-General. Several thousand more people are expected to participate online, in contrast to the 18,000 average daily attendees who came through the doors last year, he said.
“Regaining the tourism revenue this fall means letting a million potential carriers into our city,” Louis said. “The relative loss of allowing the coronavirus to ravage New York once again is much more detrimental to the economy than the relative and temporary tourism industry deficit.”
日本 最新ニュース, 日本 見出し
Similar News:他のニュース ソースから収集した、これに似たニュース記事を読むこともできます。
New York City Schools to Reopen Only If Positive Coronavirus Test Rate Is Below 3%Mayor Bill de Blasio said the priority for public schools in September is health and safety and that if the city’s positive test rates break above 3% then remote learning will prevail.
続きを読む »
New York authorities break up alleged sex party in crackdown on large gatherings amid coronavirusAuthorities in New York City are ramping up efforts to crack down on massive parties and other large gatherings as more videos pop up on social media showing mask-less revelers flouting the rules.
続きを読む »