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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 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.
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 .
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.
(Updated: 10:24 a.m. 7/9/2024) The number of people who work in the tourism industry was incorrect in an earlier version of this story. It’s an estimated 80,000 people. (Updated: 11:51 a.m. 7/9 ...
The 35.628 million visitors during this year’s first quarter was an all-time three-month record. Florida tourism continues to bounce back Skip to main content
As of 2024, motorists in Florida have one of the highest rates of car insurance in the U.S. [258] [259] 24% are uninsured. [260] Drivers between 15 and 19 years of age averaged 364 car crashes a year per ten thousand licensed Florida drivers in 2010. Drivers 70 and older averaged 95 per 10,000 during the same time frame.
Tourism became a harbinger of problems this year that were long in the making. But 2025 could “mark a new dawn” for the industry. Tourism has become a dirty word.