NEW YORK (AP).- Tourists are flowing into New York City at a rate that puts the city on track to host a record number of visitors in 2010, officials said Wednesday. City officials said preliminary tourism data show New York is on course to surpass its 2008 record of 47 million visitors and reach 47.5 million this year. That’s also a 4 percent increase over 2009, when New York’s tourism numbers slipped for the first time since 2001, to 45.6 million, as more Americans reined in their spending amid the recession. Tourism is New York City’s fifth-largest industry, pouring about $30 billion a year in direct spending into the economy. One in nine workers in New York City is