LOS ANGELES, May 10 (Xinhua) -- Los Angeles received 1.12 million Chinese visitors in 2017, hitting an all-time high and up 60,000 from the previous year, the Los Angeles Tourism and Convention Board said on May 7.
In 2017, record-setting 48.5 million visitors in total brought in a record 22.7 billion U.S. dollars of revenues into the local economy.
Tourism is one of the pillar industries in Los Angeles, creating a lotal of 523,800 jobs for the city. (Edited by Zhang Yuan, zhangyuan11@xinhua.org)
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