Native American Destinations See Surge in Overseas Visitors
Photo Credit: The American Indian Alaska Native Tourism Association's regalia showing at ITB Berlin 2016. The organization sees record numbers of overseas visitors to Indian Country in the U.S. AIANTA
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AIANTA wants to keep capitalizing on its success over the past couple of years, increasing tourism to Native American destinations. Its goals for 2020 are ambitious, but doable, given the stats so far.
Data from the American Indian Alaska Native Tourism Association (AIANTA) show that the number of international visitors to Native American destinations nearly tripled between 2007 and 2015, from 693,000 to 1,958,000.
The organization’s goal is to boost that number above 2.3 million by 2020.
AIANTA also reports that in 2015, international visitors to Indian Country supported over 41,000 jobs in the U.S. — by 2020 the organization hopes to see that figure exceed 48,000.
A new training program called Go Internat
