New York City Tourism Climbs to Record High for 6th Year

The number of tourists visiting New York City rose to a record high in 2015 for the sixth consecutive year, with nearly 60 million people traveling to the biggest city in the United States, officials said Thursday. The tourism boom continued apace even though last year brought a spike in security threats, fueling concern that domestic attacks carried out by sympathizers of the militant group Islamic State were possible in New York. Following the Paris attacks in November that killed...

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