San Diego County Tourism
For San Diego's sprawling tourism industry, it's the $8 billion question: How do you pry the recession-wary out of their armchairs? An estimated 31 million visitors to San Diego County last year spent about that much at local hotels, restaurants and tourist attractions. But with the ailing economy, those dollars are in serious jeopardy, some industry experts say. Ref. Source 8
S.D. County's population tops 3.2 million
San Diego County's population inched above the 3.2 million mark for the first time this year, even as economic woes depressed migration from other counties and Mexico, the state Department of Finance reported yesterday. Ref. Source 6