Tourists continue to flock to Florida for fun in the sun

 Florida continues to set tourism records.

VISIT FLORIDA announced this week that 85 million people visited the Sunshine State in the first nine months of the year - the highest number of visitors of any nine months in the state’s history.

That's a 5.5 percent increase over last year.

26.9 million visitors came to the state between July and September, an increase of 5.1 percent over last year.

That's Florida's largest third quarter for visitation ever. 

The average number of direct travel-related jobs in quarter three of 2016 was also a record high, with 1,241,300 Floridians employed in the tourism industry.

VISIT FLORIDA estimates that, of the 26.9 million total visitors in the third quarter, 23.6 million were domestic visitors,and 2.8 million were overseas visitors.

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