Gophila.com / GPTMC Press Releases: Tourism Research http://www.gophila.com/go/PressRoom/pressreleases/latest.aspx http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Mon, 13 Feb 2006 15:58:52 -0500 Mon, 13 Feb 2006 15:58:34 -0500 FeedForAll v1.0 (1.0.2.0) unlicensed version This is an XML content feed from the gophila.com Press Room. It is intended to be viewed in a newsreader or syndicated to another site, subject to copyright and fair use. You can subscribe to it by choosing your RSS reader at right.
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In May 1996, the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, the City of Philadelphia and The Pew Charitable Trusts made a “golden promise� to the readers of The Philadelphia Inquirer, asserting that leisure tourism could serve as a replacement industry for lost manufacturing jobs. Ten years later, the organization created to market the region and build its image, the Greater Philadelphia Tourism Marketing Corporation (GPTMC), is celebrating a decade of accomplishments. To mark the occasion, Governor Edward Rendell, Mayor John Street and Rebecca Rimel, president of The Pew Charitable Trusts, took a look back to see if the region delivered on the promise in a commentary piece that ran in The Philadelphia Inquirer today. To read the original Op-Ed or the new piece, visit gophila.com/goldenpromise. http://feeds.gophila.com/~r/GptmcPressReleaseFeedTourismResearch/~3/76573180/Phila_Fulfills_Golden_Promise.aspx Fri, 5 May 2006 15:46:56 -0500 http://www.gophila.com/Go/PressRoom/pressreleases/Phila_Fulfills_Golden_Promise.aspx New research released by the Greater Philadelphia Tourism Marketing Corporation (GPTMC) reveals that visitation to and spending in Philadelphia and Its Countryside were up in 2004. The visitor volume study, conducted by D.K. Shifflet, reports that 25.5 million people visited the five-county region (Philadelphia, Bucks, Chester, Delaware and Montgomery counties) in 2004, up 5.4% from the previous year. Comparing the latest data to 2003, Philadelphia's percentage increase in total visitors was higher than the increase in overall U.S. domestic travel volume (2.1%), as reported by the Travel Industry Association of America. Not only are tourists traveling to Philadelphia in record numbers, they are also spending more, according to Global Insight. In 2004, visitors from the business, convention and leisure segments generated $6.80 billion in direct spending, up 7% from the $6.34 billion spent in 2003. http://feeds.gophila.com/~r/GptmcPressReleaseFeedTourismResearch/~3/41988872/New_Travel_Data_110705.aspx Mon, 7 Nov 2006 15:46:56 -0500 Http://www.gophila.com /Go/PressRoom/pressreleases/New_Travel_Data_110705.aspx