Tourists continue flocking to King County in record numbers.

About 41.9 million visitors came to King County last year, a 2.3% increase from 2018, according preliminary numbers from Visit Seattle, the county’s tourism marketing organization. They spent $8.1 billion, which Visit Seattle called an “impressive” increase of 3.6%.

The number of tourists visiting the region has increased every year since 2010.

All those visitors are also helping to create jobs: More than 80,000 people now work in tourism-related industries, an increase of 2.4% from 2018.