San Francisco tourism up for 2019. (Photo by Pexels/Pixabay)

A record number of travelers and spending is expected in 2019 in San Francisco, according to the San Francisco Travel Association.

Marketers with the association are predicting 26.2 million travelers will come to the city in 2019, a 1.5 percent increase over 25.8 million in 2018.

Total spending is expected to rise 2.6 percent from $9.3 billion last year to $9.56 billion this year.

Three million international travelers are expected in 2019, up 2 percent from 2018.

Keith Burbank is currently a fulltime reporter covering Alameda County and Oakland news for Bay City News. He has also worked on the Data Points project for Local News Matters, finding trends and stories about the region through data. In 2019, he was a California Fellow at the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism, producing a series about homeless deaths in Santa Clara County. He worked as a swing shift editor for the newswire for several years as well. Outside of journalism, Keith enjoys computer programming, math, economics and music.