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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).
The economy of the state of Florida is the fourth-largest in the United States, with a $1.695 trillion gross state product (GSP) as of 2024. [1] If Florida were a sovereign nation (2024), it would rank as the world's 15th-largest economy by nominal GDP according to the International Monetary Fund , ahead of Spain and behind South Korea .
Tourism revenues hit an eight-year low in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic at $63.7 billion. Visitor spending was primarily on lodging (28 Report: Florida boasted record tourism numbers in 2023
The travel and tourism industries in the United States were among the first economic sectors negatively affected by the September 11 attacks. In the U.S., tourism is among the three largest employers in 29 states, employing 7.3 million in 2004, to take care of 1.19 billion trips tourists took in the U.S. in 2005.
The coronavirus pandemic slashed that number by more than half, with only $4.6 billion generated from tourism and travel in 2020, before bouncing back to $10.7 billion in 2021.
Number of U.S. visitors that came to Miami-Dade County during first half of 2023 fell 6% from a year ago to 6.6 million, according to the Greater Miami Convention and Visitors Bureau.
In 1997, 25% of tourism receipts in the United States were related to sports tourism; this would have valued the market at approximately $350 billion annually. [9] Many US sporting events routinely attract international visitors. The 1997 New York City Marathon attracted 12,000 participants from outside the US, out of 28,000 participants. [10]
The UN’s World Tourism Organization has just released its 2024 year-in-review data. Overall, Europe was the most-visited continent, welcoming a whopping 747 million tourists last year.