Destination DC (DDC) lero yalengeza kuti alendo okwana 22.8 miliyoni obwera ku likulu la dzikolo mu 2017, adakwera ndi 3.6% kuposa 2016. Elliott L. Ferguson, II, pulezidenti ndi Mtsogoleri wamkulu wa Destination DC, adatsimikizira chaka cha chikwangwani cha ntchito zokopa alendo za DC pamsonkhano wapachaka wa Marketing Outlook Meeting womwe unachitikira ku Andrew W. Mellon Auditorium ndi atsogoleri a mizinda, ogwira nawo ntchito komanso malonda okopa alendo komanso ochereza alendo.
"Washington, DC adalandira alendo okwana 20.8 miliyoni chaka chatha, kukwera kwa 4.2%, ndi alendo 2 miliyoni akunja, kukwera ndi 2.5%," adatero Ferguson. "Tawona zaka zisanu ndi zitatu zakukula motsatizana. Pamapeto pake, zomwe timachita kuti tikope alendo ndi chitukuko cha zachuma, zomwe zimabweretsa $ Biliyoni 7.5 kuwonongedwa ndi apaulendo.”
n 2017, zokopa alendo zinathandizira mwachindunji ntchito za 75,048 DC, kukwera 0.5% pa 2016 ndi kupitirira 75,000 kwa nthawi yoyamba kuyambira 2013. Malinga ndi IHS Markit, ndalama zapakhomo ndi zapadziko lonse zidakwera 3.1% ndipo zinaposa $ 7 biliyoni kachitatu. Maulendo abizinesi adatenga 41% ya kuyendera ndi 60% ya ndalama. Kugwiritsa ntchito nthawi yopumula kudakwera ndi 5.9% ndipo ndalama zogulira bizinesi zidakwera 1.3%.
"Kukula kwa zokopa alendo ndikwabwino kwa bizinesi yakomweko komanso kwa anthu aku Washington," adatero Meya Muriel E. Bowser. "Alendo akamasankha DC - akamadya m'malesitilanti athu, amakhala m'mahotela athu, ndikuyendera madera athu - timatha kufalitsa chitukuko ndikupanga njira zambiri zopita kumagulu apakati kwa anthu okhala m'mawodi onse asanu ndi atatu."
DDC idalengezanso mapulani opititsa patsogolo kukwera kwachangu pakuchezera powonera kampeni yatsopano yotsatsa yotchedwa "Discover the Real DC" pansi pa mtundu wake wazaka zisanu wa "DC Cool". Kuti apange kampeni, DDC idagwira ntchito ndi Destination Analysts pa kafukufuku wanthawi zonse m'misika yomwe akufuna kutsata ku East Coast Corridor komanso Chicago ndi Los Angeles. Anthu asanu ndi atatu mwa alendo omwe akuyembekezeka kudzacheza ku DC adatuluka kuchokera ku zoyankhulana zamoyo komanso kafukufuku wa anthu masauzande ambiri.
Anthuwa ndi awa: a Eclectic Cultural Traveler, makamaka okonda zaluso; Mabanja Oyenda kufunafuna maphunziro abanja ndi zosangalatsa; ndi Anthu Ozizira, kuyika patsogolo malo amakono okhala ndi nkhani zapa media;African-American History Buffs, kukopeka ndi kopita komwe kuli ndi mbiri yakale yaku Africa-America; LGBTQ, apaulendo omwe amadziwika kuti ndi LGBTQ komanso kwa omwe amapita kutawuni ochezeka ndi LGBTQ ndikofunikira; foodies, omwe amafunafuna malo odyera odziwika komanso ophika otchuka; Zolakwika Zandale, kukopeka ndi malo omwe ali ndi tanthauzo landale ndikufuna kudziwa komwe mbiri idapangidwa; ndi Masewera Okonda Masewera, kuchita chidwi ndi masewera apamwamba padziko lonse pamene akudziŵa kumene angapite.
"Kafukufukuyu amatithandiza kukhala osamala kwambiri ndi malonda athu ndikulankhula mwachindunji ndi zofuna za ogula," adatero Robin A. McClain, wachiwiri kwa pulezidenti wamkulu, malonda ndi mauthenga, DDC. “Washington, DC ili ndi zokumana nazo zomwe alendo amazifuna, kaya ndi mbiri yakale, malo osiyanasiyana komanso olandirira alendo kapena malo odyera osangalatsa a Michelin."
Kuyang'ana kuyendera kunja kwa nyanja, China ikupitirizabe kukhala msika wapamwamba wa DC ndi alendo a 324,000, mpaka 6.6% pa 2016. Mu FY2019, DDC idzapitiriza kukula pa WeChat ndi City Experience Mini Programme, komanso pulogalamu yake yovomerezeka ya membala wa Welcome China.
Misika 10 yapamwamba kwambiri yakunja kwa Washington, DC mu 2017 ndi, mwa dongosolo la kuyendera: China, United Kingdom, Germany, Korea South, France, Australia, India, Japan, Spain ndi Italy. Ngakhale alendo akunja akuyimira 9% ya chiwerengero chonse cha alendo obwera ku DC, alendo ochokera kumayiko ena [alendo akunja kuphatikiza alendo ochokera kunja. Canada ndi Mexico] zikuyimira 27% ya ndalama zomwe alendo amawononga.
"Ngakhale tinali okondwa kuwona kukula kwa kuyendera kunja kwa dziko, tikukumana ndi zenizeni zenizeni za ndale komanso momwe US amawonera padziko lonse lapansi," adatero Ferguson. "Ndichifukwa chake tikuchita zonse zomwe tingathe kuti tilandire anthu padziko lonse lapansi ndikuwonjezera oyimira athu padziko lonse lapansi m'misika yokhazikika komanso yomwe ikubwera."
Mu 2019, DC ilandila misonkhano ikuluikulu yokwana 21 ndi zochitika zapadera (2,500 zipinda usiku pachimake ndi kupitilira apo), ndikupanga 359,557 usiku wonse wazipinda komanso kukhudzidwa kwachuma kwachuma. $ Miliyoni 341. Zochitika zazikulu zikuphatikiza American Academy of Dermatology (March 1-5), NAFSA: Association of International Educators (Mwina 28-31), American Institute of Aeronautics & Astronautics (Oct. 21-25ndi American Society of Nephrology (Nov. 8-11).
Washington, DC amalandila maulendo apandege atsopano ndi mahotela kuti alimbikitse kudzacheza m'chaka chamtsogolo. Ndege yatsopano yosayima mu eyapoti ya Dulles International iyambika kuchokera ku London Stansted (Aug. 22) ndi Brussels(June 2, 2019) pa Primera Air, Hong Kong pa Cathay Pacific (Sept. 15) ndiTel Aviv ku United (Mwina 22, 2019). Pali mahotela 21 omwe akuwonjezera zipinda 4,764 mumzindawu, kuphatikiza Eaton Workshop ndi Moxy.Washington, DC Downtown, onse akuyembekezeka kutsegulira chilimwechi.
Zokopa zatsopano, kukonzanso ndi ziwonetsero ndizojambula. National Law Enforcement Museum imatsegulidwa Oct. 13. Mu 2019, mapulogalamu a mumzinda wonse adzazungulira 100th chikumbutso cha 19th Kusintha, komwe kunapatsa amayi ufulu wovota. International Spy Museum imasamukira ku L'Enfant Plaza ndikutsegulanso masika otsatira. Chipilala cha Washington chidzatsegulidwanso kasupe wotsatira ndipo Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History ya "Fossil Hall" idzatsegulidwanso mu June. John F. Kennedy Center for Performing Arts 'expansion (The REACH) imatsegula Sept. 7, 2019.
Kuti mudziwe zambiri zachitukuko, pitani washington.org.
