Major Takeaways
- Total impacts for all districts match those in the 2021 statewide travel impacts report: $100.2 billion in travel-related spending supporting 927 thousand jobs and generating $9.8 billion in state and local taxes.
- California’s visitor spending number remained just 69% of the record-setting levels recorded in 2019, before the pandemic lockdown and subsequent waves of government restrictions. Only one of California’s 58 counties – rural Trinity County in northwest California - recorded visitor spending that exceeded its 2019 mark.
- Urban destinations that host the bulk of California’s hotels, restaurants and tourism attractions have been particularly slow to recover, according to the report. San Francisco, for instance, recorded $6.1 billion in visitor spending in 2021 – just 43% of the $14.2 billion reached in 2019.
- Spending by international visitors, which stood at nearly $28 billion in 2019 and was California’s largest export, plummeted to just $5.4 billion in 2021.
Economic Reports by Legislative District
