Vermont saw 13,404,000 tourist visits (including in-state and out-ofstate visitors, as well as international visitors)

Tourists’ direct expenditures for goods and services totaled $1.57 billion

The Vermont tourism industry directly or indirectly supports 36,250 jobs (approximately 1 in every 10 jobs in the state)

Visitor spending contributed about $196.4 million in revenues to the state of Vermont (largely through lodging, gas, and property taxes)

According to commercial lodging receipts, winter accounts for 40.0% of lodging revenues, summer accounts for 28.3%, fall accounts for 23.4%, and spring accounts for 8.3%

54.9% of visitors were of domestic origin, 19.5% were Canadian visitors, 0.5% were other international visitors, and 24.9% were Vermonters

59.8% of all visitors, an estimated 8.0 million visitors, spent one or more nights in Vermont

55% of overnight visitors stayed in commercial lodging such as a motel, hotel, B&B, rental home, or campground

40.7% of visitors staying in commercial lodging originated from the Mid-Atlantic states of New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania, and 32.6% originated from New England states other than Vermont

Visitors staying in commercial lodging stayed an average 2.3 nights per visit

On average, day-visitors spent $66.05 per person trip on transportation, food and beverage, and retail shopping items; overnight visitors spent $177.37 on these goods and services, as well as lodging

Lodging accounts for 23.7% of visitor expenditures, food and beverage for 22.5%, and shopping for 21.4%

Vermont restaurants are almost one and a half times as dependent on visitor spending than the national average, and retail is more than two times as dependent

Every million dollars of visitor spending supports 23 jobs in the travel industry

An additional 8,514 visitors will increase travel industry output by $1.0 million