What do you want to know about Illinois tourism? Every state in the nation has tourism as something that they value, some more than others. Tourism brings money into a state and states are all about having all the money they can get from each other. In fact tourism is almost like a product or commodity like cars or corn, only instead of exporting your product you are importing your customer. Therefore there are no shipping expenses incurred by the state. This allows for lower prices for tourism as the costs are decreased. Gas prices aren’t nearly as important to tourists as they individually bear the cost.