Domestic travel spending in Oklahoma reached nearly $3.9 billion during 2002, a 1.3 percent increase over 2001.

Travel-generated employees earned nearly $1.5 billion in wage and salary income during 2002, up .4 percent over 2001.

Domestic travel expenditures generated 69.2 thousand jobs within Oklahoma in 2002, 4.7 percent of the state's total non-agricultural employment. Without these jobs generated by domestic travel, Oklahoma's 2002 unemployment rate of 4.5 percent would have been 4.1 percentage points higher than it was, 8.6 percent of the labor force.

On average, every $56,353 spent in Oklahoma by domestic travelers generated one job in 2002.

Domestic travel spending in Oklahoma generated $690.9 million in tax revenue for federal, state and local governments in 2002.

Oklahoma County, which includes Oklahoma City, received nearly $1.3 billion in domestic travel expenditures to lead all Oklahoma counties in 2002.

Tulsa County, which includes the city of Tulsa, indicated over $1 billion in domestic travel expenditures to rank second among all Oklahoma counties during 2002.

Ten of the seventy-seven counties in Oklahoma received over $50 million in domestic travel expenditures in 2002.

Four counties in Oklahoma indicated one thousand or more jobs directly supported by domestic travel expenditures in 2002.

Source: Economic Impact of Travel on Oklahoma Counties 2002, Travel Industry Association of America