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New York is one of the most important cities in the United States and the world. It is characterized by neighborhoods and movie characters, street music, great theater and major shopping centers.
During 2011, the city has been visited by a record number of visitors reaching a total of more than 50 million tourists. This will rank as the most visited tourist destination in the United States.
Note that these 50 million tourists are 10 million travelers coming from abroad. Therefore we can say that 1 in 5 visitors from other countries. This amount of tourists is a really significant number that exceeded expectations, as the mayor indicated that this was a number that is expected to achieve by 2015.
In terms of impact on the economy, this is clearly favorable as tourists spent more than 30 billion dollars, creating a global impact to New York for almost 50 billion dollars. This indicates without doubt that tourism in New York is very important and worthwhile efforts to overturn this activity.
In the city you can visit different places, walking through its beautiful streets, taking its extensive subway lines or taking certain collective tours are the famous “hop on hop off” that let you get on and off at any stop times you want.
The district is certainly more important Manhattan, which offers a wide variety of attractions for all tastes. Anyway, New York is much more than Manhattan. On the island known as the Big Apple also highlights other places like Brooklyn, Queens, and Staten Island Bronk.
Finally it is noteworthy that many tourists choose to travel at Christmas. At this time the city is transformed and becomes a great figure with all the beautiful Christmas decorations. Besides highlighting the ice rink and the giant Christmas tree at Rockefeller Center. And that is why the flights to the city of New York at this time greatly increased.