Total travel and tourism expenditures in Oxford amounted to a staggering $172.6 million in Fiscal Year 2021. This was an increase of 18.3% from Fiscal Year 2020 and just slightly below the record amount of $177.6 million set in Fiscal Year 2019. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The amount of taxes collected from these expenditures was $16.2 million, which had a direct effect on each household in Oxford, equating to $840.59 in total savings per household. According to Visit Mississippi<\/strong>\u2019s Economic Contribution Report, the average savings per household overall for the state of \u201cWe have always known that Oxford is a popular destination for both in-state and out-of-state visitors. Travel and Tourism is Mississippi\u2019s fourth-largest private sector employer. It accounts for 76,655 direct Ferris said, \u201cVisit Oxford is planning for a future that will strengthen Oxford\u2019s tourism industry and economy. This National Travel and Tourism Week, we are spotlighting how travel benefits our workforce and supports our local economy, and asking everyone\u2014from local officials to all of our local friends and neighbors\u2014to join together in saluting this important industry. All week long, we\u2019ll highlight different aspects of the local tourism industry on our social media platforms. We hope everyone in the community will follow along!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Celebrated annually the first full week in May, NTTW was created by Congress in 1983 to elevate the National Travel and Tourism Week 2022 (May 1\u20137) spotlights the collective strength of the U.S. travel industry. National<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"featured_media":119568,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14370],"tags":[5,21388,21389,4,18559,6424],"class_list":["post-119505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-travel","tag-mississippi","tag-national-travel-and-tourism-week","tag-nttw","tag-oxford","tag-visit-mississippi","tag-visit-oxford"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/National-Travel-Tourism-Week.jpg?fit=1640%2C924&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119505\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/119568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Mississippi was lower than Oxford\u2019s average, with tourism revenue saving taxpayers an average of $677 per household statewide. In that same report from Visit Mississippi, Oxford was listed as the 4th
most visited destination in Mississippi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In this year\u2019s report, Oxford was listed as the fourth-most-visited destination in Mississippi. That listing
speaks to our local community and the outstanding job that our hospitality workers are doing,\u201d said
Kinney Ferris<\/strong>, Executive Director of Visit Oxford<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
jobs and an additional 24,565 indirect and induced jobs: a total of 101,220 jobs, which equals 9% of the
state\u2019s total jobs. Similarly, travel and tourism is one of the largest sectors of employment in Oxford and
Lafayette County, supporting over 2,000 direct jobs and representing 7.9% of the total jobs in the local
community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
economic power of travel in the U.S. The 39th annual NTTW (May 1\u20137, 2022) arrives as the industry looks
ahead to future growth and success following the challenges of the past two years. Please visit ustravel.org\/NTTW<\/a> to learn more about National Travel and Tourism Week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/TheLocalVoiceLigature-25web.jpg?resize=25%2C16\")
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