Survey of Tourist Industry of Greater Miami booklet-page 1-1949-MB2. WHERE THEY CAME FROM
Practically all of the tourists to Greater Miami came from east of
the Mi s s i s s ippi .
The Miami area continues to appeal to New Yorkex~, 48.5~o co~n~ing
frorn that state with 40.?°~0 of these coming from New York City.
This compares with 4b~fo from New York 5tate and 41.1 % from New
York City in last year's surv~~'.
Illinois and New Jersey dropped from last year, Itlinois from l0~fo
to ?.3~fo vvhile ~Tew Jersey dropped from 9~o to ?.8~0 . Visitors from
the state s of Pennsylvania, Ohio, Mas sachusetts, 1Viichigan and
Connecticut contributed about the sarne percer~~tage as last year.
Visitbrs from Canada increased approximately 1°~o . Based on qu.~s-
tion :"V~hat i s your home c ity ? state ? ;" the f ollowing
table is pre sented.
TABLE 1.
Where They Came From
Place of ~rigi~ T otal Percent
Greater.New York 630 40.?
New York ~ta~e 120 ?..8
New J'ersey 121 ?.8
Illinoi s 114 7. 3
Pennsylvania, 99 6 .4
Mas sacht~setts 80 5.1
Ohio 71 ~ .6
Mi~higan 53 3.4
Maryland 8t V~a shington, D. C. 46 3. Q
C anada 45 2.9
Gannecti~ut 36 Z.3
Othe r 13 5
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T c~tal 15 5 0 10 0. 0