New York Office of Tourism announced in Munich that the number of tourists who visited the city called the “Big Apple” has risen to 47 million people, a rate of 2% compared to 2007, also visited the city of about 8, 9 million foreigners last year.

And contributed to the increase in the number of foreign tourists heading to the weakness of the dollar against other currencies, also of the technical projects, such as artificial waterfalls in the East River last summer. New York and set itself the goal of attracting 50 million tourists every year by 2012.