> 23.5 million — Number of visitors to Massachusetts in 2014
> 21.3 million — Domestic visitors
> 1.5 million — Overseas visitors
> 735,000 — Visitors from Canada, Massachusetts’s top source of tourists
> 3 million — Number of visitors walking the Freedom Trail, Boston’s top tourist attraction
> 4,532,768 — Number of visitors to Cape Cod National Seashore in 2015
> 20 million — Visits to Faneuil Hall over the course of a year
> 1,402,476 — Number of visits to the Museum of Science in 2014, the most visited Boston-area museum that year
> 8,136,680 — Number of visits to Massachusetts museums, 2015
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> $20 billion— Total spending impact of visitors for Boston
> 17 million — Visits to Boston per year, including day-trippers
Berkshires tourism:
> 79.5 percent of visitors to the Berkshires in 2014 went to museums and historic sites
> 59.2% went to performing arts events
> 36.9% engaged in outdoor recreation
Quotable:
“Boston’s freeway system is insane. It was clearly designed by a person who had spent his childhood crashing toy trains.” — The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-Town America by Bill Bryson
SOURCES: Greater Boston Convention & Visitors Bureau; Berkshire Visitors Bureau; Massachusetts Office of Travel and Tourism; Cape Cod Chamber of Commerce