Travel and tourism jobs show urban rural divide in 2018
The travel and tourism sectors support 15.6 million U.S. jobs and 2.4 trillion in output in 2017. Deloitte forecasts 6 percent growth in business travel in 2018. Austin, Denver, San Francisco and Seattle emerge as top travel job hubs, while tourism opportunities cluster in rural and mid-sized cities with higher wage leverage and lower living costs.