The U.S. States Seeing Largest Increases to Their Tourism Budgets
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The most visited states such as Florida, California, and New York still have the largest budgets but some of the states seeing their budgets receive the highest percent increases aren't iconic American destinations.
Several U.S. state tourism offices had bigger budgets than they'd ever had during the past fiscal year and the top 10 states with the highest budgets accounted for 55% of the total budget for all state tourism offices.
Tourism budgets have gradually bounced back to or exceeded pre-Recession funding levels and the average tourism budget amount hit a new record high in fiscal year 2015 at $18.1 million, according to data from the U.S. Travel Association.
Even more striking are the states like Nebraska and Missouri that saw some of the largest year-over-y
