Thursday, May 19, 2016

Florida breaks tourism record in first quarter of 2016

                Florida broke another tourism record during the first three months of 2016.

VISIT FLORIDA, the state’s sales and marketing organization that promotes tourism to Florida, announced that Florida welcomed the highest number of visitors during the first quarter of the year with 29.8 million tourists.

That’s an increase of nearly 5 percent over the same period last year and exceeds the previous high of 28.5 million visitors in the first quarter of 2015. 

25.6 million of those visitors were from the US, the rest from Canada and overseas.

The average number of direct travel-related jobs in the first quarter of 2016 was also a record high, with 1,231,100 Floridians employed in the tourism industry.





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