Travel Tacoma + Pierce County, the area's official destination marketing organization, today announced that travel spending1 reached $1.09 billion in Pierce County in 2015, an annual increase of 3.9 percent, breaking the record set in 2014. Visitor spending2 marked its first billion-dollar year, reaching $1.01 billion, an annual increase of 6.3 percent. Non-transportation visitor spending rose 8.2 percent in 2015.
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