NEW YORK (Reuters) -
Officials said on Monday that the number of tourists who visited New York City record level historically high in 2014, thanks to its pattern of living upscale and low levels of crime and ongoing activity.
He said the mayor's office and the Organization of Tourism and Marketing of New York City, said that 56.4 million tourists visited New York last year, although tourism revenues recorded the highest ever level of $ 61.1 billion of the overall economic impact.
Mayor Bill de Blasio in a statement that "the pattern of living outstanding and low crime levels and continuing our activity are factors still attracts record numbers of tourists every year, 2014 was not an exception to that."
Officials said that in the previous year, in 2013 54.3 million visitors came to New York City.
And among the visitors last year came about 20 percent, or 12.2 million from foreign countries, especially from the United Kingdom, Canada, Brazil, France, China, Australia and Germany.