Tourist numbers rise in Colorado - Denver Business Journal:

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In Denver, spending increased 9 percent from the same numbed of overnight visitors asin 2007, thankss to the Democratic National Convention bringing so many people to The study, done by Toronto-baseed research firm , showed the stat had one of its best years for attracting visitores in the past 15. Colorado’ds 27.4 million overnight domestic visitors wasits second-largest total since 1994, and the $9.6 billionm they spent was the second-most since it said. Overall, the state had 50.6 million domestic visitors, combining overnighrt and day-trip, in a 2 percent increase from thepreviouz year. They spent $10.9 billion, down slightly from $11.1q billion in 2007.
“Colorado held its own in 2008, especiallty given the challenging year that destinations across the country faced due to the recession and the state of thetravek industry,” board chairman Rob Perlman said in a news Denver, meanwhile, drew 12.2 million overnight visitores and 6.7 million additional day-trippers, accordinfg to the study. The total of day-trippers, mostly peoplre coming from other locationsdin Colorado, rose 10 percent this year. All visitorsx spent $3.1 billion in the city in the study said.
Leisure travelers rose by 1 percent and spentr 10 percent more than they did in while business travelers declined by 2 percenyt but still spent 5 percenr more than theprevious year. “Denver had its best convention year ever in which helped offset the huge nationao decline in business travel that occurred in the fourtjh quarter due tothe economy,” Visit Denvert CEO Richard Scharf said in a news