Of the 57,000 private-sector jobs created in June, more than one in five, were added in the travel industry, David Huether, senior vice president of economics and research at the  U.S. Travel Association announced.

In the wake of the Labor Department report issued for June 2011, shows that employers added 18,000 jobs in June while the unemployment rate edged up to 9.2 percent last month. However, travel jobs outpaced other industries.

"Of the 57,000 private-sector jobs created in June, 12,000- or more than one in five- were added in the travel industry. The fact that travel has outperformed other employers is nothing new in this recovery.

"Since the labor market bottomed out in February of 2010, employment in the travel industry has increased by 162,000, growing 1.7 times faster than employment growth in the rest of the economy and accounting for nine percent of the total jobs created to-date. And through the first six months of this year, the 75,000 jobs added by the travel industry accounted for 10 percent of the jobs created by the economy overall," said Huether.

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