Economic Impact of Travel & Tourism in TX via Ray Perryman. The numbers:

• 256 million domestic visitors to TX in 2015
• 5.2% increase in doemstic visitors from previous year
• 76% is liesure travel
• annual direct travel spending in Texas is estiamted at $72.0 billion per year
• per day travel spending in Texas is $197 million- every day
• 688,000 jobs directly supported
• $128.9 billion in gross product
• 1.4 Million permanent jobs generated by travel and tourism
• $7.0 billion in state tax revenue annually
  • $5.8 billion of this is sales tax
• $3.3 billion in local tax revenue 
  • accounts for $1.2 billion in local property tax revenue
• ISDS receive $675.8 million in tax revenue from travel and tourism

Rio Grande Guardian | Perryman: The Impact of Texas Travel and Tourism