Published by admin on Thu, 01/26/2023 - 1:20pm
Visitor spending in South Dakota set an all-time record in 2022.
Tourism officials were closely monitoring the 2022 numbers following the extreme record-setting year of 2021. According to the annual study conducted by Tourism Economics, visitors to South Dakota spent 4.7 billion dollars, an increase of 8 percent over 2021. This surpasses all previous records, even exceeding 2021’s surge of travel spending that was up 30 percent over 2020.
South Dakota welcomed 14.4 million visitors, an increase of 0.6 percent over 2021.