Seattle Sees Eighth Consecutive Year of Record Tourism

Visit Seattle | April 16, 2018

Results celebrated at the 2018 Annual Meeting on Global Meetings Industry Day SEATTLE – Statistics released today show record visitor volume, expenditures, tax contributions and travel-related employment for Seattle and King County in 2017 for the eighth year in a row. The results were released by Visit Seattle at its 2018 Annual Meeting at the Sheraton Seattle Hotel April 12. Visit Seattle President & CEO Tom Norwalk and Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan welcomed more than 700 tourism and business professionals to the event held purposefully on Global Meetings Industry Day. Addresses were made by meetings industry thought-leader Mic...