- Domestic travel spending in Oklahoma reached more than $5.3 billion during 2006, a 7.8 percent increase over 2005.
- Travel-generated employees earned over $1.6 billion in wage and salary income during 2006, up 4.3 percent over 2005.
- Domestic travel expenditures generated 71.9 thousand jobs within Oklahoma in 2006, 4.6 percent of the state’s total non-agricultural employment. Without these jobs generated by domestic travel, Oklahoma’s 2006 unemployment rate of 4.0 percent would have been 4.2 percentage points higher than it was, or 8.2 percent of the labor force.
- On average, every $73,863 spent in Oklahoma by domestic travelers generated one job in 2006.
- Domestic travel spending in Oklahoma generated $842.0 million in tax revenue for federal, state and local governments in 2006, up 4.9 percent from 2005.
- Oklahoma County, which includes Oklahoma City, received more than $1.8 billion in domestic travel expenditures to lead all Oklahoma counties in 2006.
- Tulsa County, which includes the city of Tulsa, indicated over $1.3 billion in domestic travel expenditures to rank second among all Oklahoma counties during 2006.
- Fourteen of the seventy-seven counties in Oklahoma received over $50 million in domestic travel expenditures in 2006.
- Six counties in Oklahoma indicated one thousand or more jobs directly supported by domestic travel expenditures in 2006.
- Source: Economic Impact of Travel on Oklahoma Counties 2006-07, Travel Industry Association. Click here to download the full report.
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