Governor Pat McCrory was at the Outer Banks today to celebrate "Tourism Week" in North Carolina and to discuss the newest tourism statistics from the U.S. Travel Association. The state's tourism industry broke records with the amount of visitor spending taken up in 2013. "It came as no surprise to me when I learned that North Carolina is the sixth-most visited state in the country," said Governor McCrory. Tourism Week in North Carolina is part of National Travel & Tourism Week, which also runs May 3-11. For every $1 invested by the Commerce Department's Division of Tourism in paid media advertising, North Carolina receives $191 in new visitor spending, $10.31 in new state taxes and $6.25 in new local taxes. Visitors to North Carolina generated more than $3 billion in federal, state and local taxes in 2013. State tax receipts as a result of visitor spending passed the $1 billion mark in 2013, 4 percent higher than 2012’s $970 million.