Tourism & San Francisco

San Francisco from the water.

Despite the average hotel in San Francisco being 3.6 days, only 25 percent of guests rent a car according to the San Francisco Convention and Visitors Bureau's website. This results in significant spending within the city itself.

Size

15.4 million people visited San Francisco in 2009, according to the San Francisco Convention and Visitors Bureau's website.

Income

Local businesses in San Francisco reported $7.8 billion in income from tourists in 2009, according to the San Francisco Convention and Visitors Bureau's website.

Features

There are 32,866 hotel units in San Francisco as of 2010, according to the Circos website. Guests staying in those hotels spend an average of $244.43 as of 2010 according to the website.

Trends

In 2009, San Francisco's tourist volume dropped by 5.4 percent compared with 2008. The amount spent by tourists dropped by 7.8 in 2009, compared with 2008 according to the hotel-online website.

Special Interest Tourism

A 2010 survey by Community Marketing, Inc. is cited by the hotel-online website as crediting San Francisco with being the second most popular tourist destination for the gay and lesbian community

References

• San Francisco Convention and Visitors Bureau: San Francisco Visitor Industry Statistics
• Circos: San Francisco Hotel and Tourism Social Media
• Hotel Online: San Francisco CVB Releases 2009 Tourism Figures; Visitors to San Francisco Down 5.8%, Visitor Spending Down 7.8% from 2008