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The travel resource of American Tourism has a positive impact on economic, social, and environmental sustainable development. And as the world’s largest and fastest industry, more and more countries, local governments and local residents attach great importance and concern about it. According to the World’s Tourism Organization WTO statistics in 2003, the world’s tourism industry generated USD4.5442 trillion in direct economic output, the contribution to world GDP reached USD1.2804 trillion, accounting for 3.7% of world GDP. Some experts predict that by 2050 among the top ten industries in the world economy, tourism industry will ranked for No.1. As we know, America’s modern tourism develop earlier than any other country, the tourist income ranks No.1 for many years. The following data can be shown: 附表一：2001年世界旅游收入前7位国家排名国际旅游收入（亿美元）比上年增长（％）占世界市场份额-11.9 15.6 2 西班牙 329 4.5 7.1 3 法国 296 -3.7 6.4 4 意大利 259 -5.7 5.6 5 中国 178 9.7 3.8 6 德国 172 -3.7 3.7 7 英国 159 -18.8 3.4 附表二：2001年世界接待过夜旅游人数前6位国家排名 入境过夜旅游者人数（万）比上年增长（％）占世界市场份额（％）7650 1.2 11 2 西班牙 4950 3.4 7.1 3 美国 4550 -10.6 6.6 4 意大利 3900 -5.3 6.6 5 中国 3320 6.2 4.8 6 英国 2340 -7.4 3.4 American has very rich tourism resources, the natural environment in different styles can provide visitors sightseeing, hiking, swimming, boating, vacation, resort and other recreational activities, to meet people’s travel need. American also have abundant humanist tourism resources, there are three types. First, the National Park with the main content of human landscape, such as national independence Historical Park in Philadelphia, and so on. Second, the large artificial playground, Los Angeles, Disneyland and Disney World in Orlando, as his representative. Third, the ancient and modern attractions and cultural facilities, the Statue of Liberty in New York, Hollywood studios and so on. Well, regarding tour, most people have great interests in it, it’s a human nature that people who come from the dame nature just fall in love i