gnie wrote:
With all the homeless heroin addicts walking the streets and with their needles strewn throughout, and the smell of urine and feces on the side walk...yea the air is real clean....tourism has dropped off by 70% because of the conditions in SF...even the surrounding cities, locals won't venture in SF anymore,..,.
That is the case with any large metropolitan city it is not unique to San Fran and the city is also headquarters for some very large Tech companies , export import companies. shipping companies. a major leage baseball team's and soo to be home of the NBA champion Warriors basket ball team two universities and a community college as well as world class theaters, “Tourism is actually the number one generator of outside dollars into San Francisco’s economy, “In 2010, 15.9 million visitors came into the city and they spent $8.3 billion, which is the equivalent of about $22 million every day of the year.”
A 2010 survey by Community Marketing Inc. showed that San Francisco was the number two overall destination in the U.S. for LGBT travelers.
Tourism also generates tax dollars to the tune of $485 million in San Francisco last year.