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发帖数: 4174 | 1 Posted on Advocate.com July 23, 2011 04:25:00 PM ET
N.Y. Marriage Windfall: $155M
By Neal Broverman
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The Williams Institute, an LGBT-related think-tank at the University of
California, Los Angeles, has the latest estimate on how many marriage
equality-related tourism dollars will roll into New York State in the first
year gay couples can marry there: $155 million.
"The estimate is based on the experience of the five previous states that
have extended marriage to same-sex couples and new Census 2010 data for New
York released just last week," according to a release from the think-tank.
New York is already a huge magnet for domestic and international tourism,
and its new policy should only add to its allure.
Click here to read more about the Williams Institute.
The Empire State tourism boom would be greater than that experienced from
the other five marriage equality states combined. When California voters
narrowly banned marriage equality in 2008, the wording of the ballot
initiative warned that the state could lose out on tens of millions of
tourism dollars should Prop. 8 pass. |
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