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The Hotel Ponce de Leon, also known as The Ponce, was a luxury hotel in St. Augustine, Florida, built by millionaire developer and Standard Oil co-founder Henry M. Flagler. Built between 1885–1887, the winter resort opened in January 1888.
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).
Billionaire Larry Ellison has bought a Florida resort for $277.4 million. Take a look at his other hotel properties in Hawaii, California and Nevada.
[citation needed] It was the first air-conditioned hotel on Miami Beach, and was considered the most expensive and lavish resort of the time. [citation needed] When the hotel first opened, each room was estimated to have cost approximately $21,000, which at the time was thought to be the largest sum of money ever paid for such a project. The ...
A look back at the original hotel, which opened in 1958. How a secretive couple used fame and fortune to put Florida’s Diplomat Hotel on the map Skip to main content
Irma’s path of destruction in Florida threatens to disrupt a thriving tourism industry worth more than $100 billion annually months ahead of travel season.
The San Carlos Hotel was the project of local businessmen James Michael Muldon, Sr. (1867-1932) and Frasier Franklin Bingham (1872-1953) (lumber magnate and shipbuilder), who saw the need for the kind of upscale hotel being erected in larger cities, and issued stock in the project under the name Pensacola Hotel Company. Regarding the site ...
Harder Hall is a historic former hotel building in Sebring, Florida. It is located on Lake Jackson, at 3300 Golfview Drive. It was regarded as one of the "Grande Dame hotels of Florida", [3] until its closing in 1986. The hotel was designed by renowned Palm Beach architect William Manly King, and was considered the social center of Sebring. [4]