The United States Department of Commerce Office of Travel and Tourism Industries (OTTI) announced on Friday that Philadelphia hosted a record-breaking 550,000 international visitors in 2007, an increase of more than 100,000 from the previous year. Philadelphia is one of only two cities that reached a record level of international visitors in 2007. Seventy-five percent of the new visitation was driven by a sharp increase in the number of travelers from the Philadelphia Convention & Visitors Bureau’s (PCVB) primary target markets of the United Kingdom, Germany, and France.
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