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2021 was best tourism year ever for Alabama & the Gulf Coast
It's that time of year. Interstate 10 and any other route heading toward the U.S.S. Alabama Battleship or the beaches are packed with vacationers to our little slice of paradise. The traffic may be bumper to bumper Friday afternoons and wait times at our favorite restaurants may be longer than we'd like, but visitors to Mobile and Baldwin counties provide vital financial support to our area and the entire state.
According to the 2021 Alabama Tourism Economic Impact report, the 28.2 million visitors to our state spent $19.67 billion last year with the Gulf Coast accounting for 46 percent of that amount. Our state made more than $6 billion in earnings from those visitors, saving the average Alabama family $6...
