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The travel industry has been among the most reliable job generators in the U.S. economy, adding jobs in 51 of the 60 months during the past five years and 800,000 jobs overall since the Great Recession. That s more jobs than the entire manufacturing sector has created, Huether said.
The travel industry has also created jobs at a 40 percent faster pace than the rest of the economy during the current expansion. One of the main reasons that the travel industry has been creating jobs faster than the rest of the economy is that travel is more export-oriented, more labor-intensive, and more immune to offshore outsourcing than other sectors of the economy.
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By Newswire | November 7, 2014 October was another record-setting jobs month for travel, which continues to pace the economy in a number of indicators as it emerges from the recession, says David Huether, senior vice president for economics and research at the U.S. Travel Association, reacting to today's Labor Department employment report.

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