To the world when we think of a vacation our first thought that runs through our mind is an island get away. The number one place to go on vacation is somewhere coastal. In the U.S coastal tourism and recreation is the fastest growing service-sector business. Contributing almost $600 billion yearly to the GDP. Not just vacations but living is also huge on the coast. Over 50% of U.S population lives within 50 miles of the coast. The 30 coastal and Great Lake states had 245.5 million people, employed 107.5 milli9on people, and contributed $11.4 trillion to the national GDP. That's a major part of our GDP. The top five income making states in America are coastal states. More then $5.6 trillion was generated from just the coastal states themselves. The coastal states together produce a GDP that is bigger then that of any single country in the world besides the U.S. Approximately 180 million people now visit the the U.S coasts. Population and the pressure of development now make it increasingly less attractive to do so in the near future.
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This Video and may others are just some of the many ways we get people to come to " A Tropical Oasis".
Source : Swing, John Temple. “What Future for the Oceans?.” Foreign Affairs. Sept./Oct. 2003: 139-152. SIRS Researcher. Web. 11 May 2011.
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