City of Puyallup

Tourism Matters

Below are statistics for Puyallup visitor impact from Pierce County Travel Impact 2001-2009 by Dean Runyan Associates for the Tacoma Regional Convention and Visitor's Bureau

2009 Puyallup Travel Spending - $92.7 million
2009 Puyallup Travel Earnings -  $24.0 million

Percentage of the total travel spending generated in Pierce County - 11%

Direct jobs generated in Puyallup from the visitor industry in 2009 - 1,160

Revenue generated from visitor industry taxes in 2009. *
Puyallup Local Tax Receipt............................................$1.9 million
Puyallup State Tax Receipt............................................$5.6 million
Total Puyallup Tax Receipt.............................................$7.5 million

Local and state tax revenues directly generated by travel spending were $958 million in 2009. Travel spending generated an additional $776 million in federal tax receipts in 2009. **

2009 Visitor spending in the state..................................$14.2 billion
2009 State earnings from visitors....................................$4.2 billion

*Pierce County Travel Impact 2001-2009
**Washington State Travel Impacts