WASHINGTON — The amount of tourism spending in the nation’s capital grew in 2011, according to numbers released Tuesday by Destination DC, the megalopolis’s official convention and tourism corporation. As part of National Travel and Tourism Week, travel industry leaders joined community sports mascots outside the Carnegie Library building on Mount Vernon Square to tout facts and figures about community tourism, the second-largest industry in the nation’s capital after the federal administration.According to a fresh study prepared by IHS Global Insight, tourism is responsible for 76,000 total jobs in the District of Columbia, a 7 percent growth from 2010′s tourism job numbers. Glance at More…
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