Annual Fort Wayne tourism spending surpasses $1B for first time

FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE)— A report released by Visit Fort Wayne revealed annual visitor expenditures surpassed $1 billion for the first time in 2023.Some of the numbers in the annual report are a year delayed as the data takes time to process. In the same time period, Fort Wayne and Allen County saw 9.2 million visitors. That's up from 8.8 million in 2022. The $1.1 billion spent is up from $995 million the year before.For perspective, if tourism didn't exist in Allen County, each household