WELCOME, TURISTAS! Eat, spend, play! Despite the scary global economy, world tourism still is growing, says the United Nations. And Brazilian tourists alone are dropping $43 million a day around the globe, according to Time. Last year, they poured nearly $6 billion into the U.S. economy. Obrigado! "Indeed," writes Tim Rogers of Time, "despite U.S. visa policies that treat all Latinos as immigrants vying for American jobs and their piece of the American Dream, many are just tourists from down under who have already achieved their own Brazilian or Chilean dreams and just want to visit the U.S. and spend their money here."
- Time, "Let Them In: How Brazilians Could Help the U.S. Economy" by Tim Rogers.
- United Nations World Tourism Organization, "International Tourism: First results of 2011 confirm consolidation of growth."
- Wikipedia, "Tourism."
- WSJ blogs, "The World’s Most Wanted: Chinese Tourists" by Jason Chow and "Prepare for the Arrival of Chinese Tourists" by Laurie Burkitt.
- Boston Consulting Group, "Taking Off: Travel and Tourism in China and Beyond" by Vincent Lui, Youchi Kuo, Justin Fung, Waldemar Jap and Hubert Hsu.
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