(Photo by John Sonderman)

Last year, 19.3 million tourists visited the District, setting a new record for the sixth consecutive year in a row. It’s also an increase of nearly a million tourists—matching t-shirts, selfie sticks, and all—from 2014.

They might have come for terrible reasons or because they heard #WeGotThis, but our visitors still spent $7.1 billion (an increase of 4.1 percent from the year before).

“Year after year, more visitors are coming to the District, which is a huge boon to our city. Tourism is one of our strongest sectors, yielding jobs for our residents and dollars for our local economy,” Mayor Muriel Bowser said in a release.

Destination DC, the city’s official tourism and marketing office, estimates that the city took in $2.65 in taxes for every dollar it spent on advertisements, like the DC Cool campaign and D.C.-specific emojis.