ers
Main Purpose of Trip:
52% Visiting friends or
relatives
27% Marketable – trips
influenced by marketing
efforts
17% Business
4% Business – leisure
16 million
day visitors
10.7 million
overnight
visitors
2.4 nights
average length
of stay
leisure spending makes up
76% of all visitor spending
overnight visitor spending
makes up 70.7% of all
visitor spending
spending on lodging, food & beverage
accounts for 51% of all visitor spending
Without the state and local taxes generated by tourism, each Baltimore household
would pay an additional $697 to maintain current level of government services
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