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(The Center Square) – Tourism in Florida was record-setting in 2024, with nearly 3 million more than ever before to set a new mark of 142.9 million. Gov. Ron DeSantis said 30 million came in the ...
Walt Disney World Resort in Bay Lake, Florida near Orlando PortMiami is the world's largest cruise ship port. Visitors at the beach in Naples, Florida. Tourism makes up one of the largest sectors of Florida's economy, with nearly 1.4 million people employed in the tourism industry in 2016 (a record for the state, surpassing the 1.2 million employment from 2015).
Visit Florida was created in 1996 by the Florida Legislature as a public-private-partnership. [1] Tourism is the state's largest industry and was responsible for welcoming 122 million visitors in 2021. [2] Based on an economic impact study in 2018, Florida visitors spent $112 billion and supported 1.5 million Florida jobs. [3] According to the ...
(The Center Square) — A report released this week by VISIT FLORIDA, the state's tourism agency, says out-of-state visitors spent a record $131 billion in the state last year, up 5% from 2022.
Editor’s note: The timeline of tourism numbers was incorrect in an earlier version of this story. The comparison numbers were from 2019, which was before the pandemic. (Updated: 10:24 a.m. 7/9/2024)
Tourist attractions in Florida by populated place (20 C) Tourist attractions in the Florida Keys (1 C, 16 P, 1 F) Tourist attractions in Greater Orlando (6 C, 23 P)
Even so, the masses just keep coming. In 2024, Europe’s tourism numbers reached new heights, with foreign arrivals surpassing 2019 figures, with a year-on-year increase of 12% since 2023 ...
The National Historic Landmarks in Florida are representations of a broad sweep of history from Pre-Columbian times, through the Second Seminole War and Civil War, and the Space Age. There are 47 National Historic Landmarks (NHLs) in Florida , [ 1 ] which are located in twenty-two of the state's sixty-seven counties .