Travel and tourism generates $82.5 billion annually in California and supports jobs for nearly 900,000 Californians, accounting for $5.2 billion in state and local tax revenues. Tourism is California’s fourth largest employer and fifth largest contributor to the gross state product. Los Angeles County generates approximately $12.2 billion per year in direct travel spending. As a key industry in Hollywood and as a major donor of tourism-related business assessments, the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce urges the State to increase its efforts to maintain this vital industry and ensure that visitors are able to access reliable information on visiting the most famous city in the world – HOLLYWOOD! With an annual CTC marketing budget of $25 million, the Hollywood delegation would like to know how the California Tourism Commission is marketing this worldwide end destination and how we can better work with the Commission.