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(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.
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. Portugal, which also has struggled with ...
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).
Hurricane Helene makes landfall in Florida, as a Category 4 hurricane, with sustained winds of 140 mph (230 km/h) and a minimum central pressure of 938 millibars. [20] Tropical storm conditions occur across western Florida, with an automated weather station recording sustained winds of 54 mph (87 km/h) with gusts up to 68 mph (109 km/h) near ...
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)
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 .
More than 1.4 billion people traveled internationally in 2024 as tourism returns to pre-pandemic highs ... which is 99% of the number who did the same in 2019, the last full year before Covid-19 ...
The economy of the state of Florida is the fourth-largest in the United States, with a $1.647 trillion gross state product (GSP) as of 2024. [241] If Florida were a sovereign nation (2024), it would rank as the world's 15th-largest economy according to the International Monetary Fund, ahead of Spain and behind South Korea.