Sun shining for Visit Florida

Florida continues to set tourism records this year, welcoming the highest amount of visitors of any six months in the state’s history with 57.4 million visitors.

According to Visit Florida, this record amount of out-of-state and international visitors represents a 4.3 per cent increase over the previous year. In the second quarter of 2016 (April -June), 27.3 million visitors came to the state, an increase of 3.1 per cent over the same period in 2015. Visit Florida estimates that 23.6 million domestic visitors traveled to Florida in the second quarter of 2016, reflecting a 4.6 per cent increase over the same period last year.

Estimates also show that 2.6 million overseas visitors and 1.1 million Canadians came to Florida in quarter two of 2016, reflecting 5.5 per cent and 5.1 per cent decreases respectively over the same period last year. Preliminary figures for the first half of 2016 show 49.4 million domestic visitors (up six per cent), 5.3 million overseas visitors (down 5.6 per cent) and 2.7 million Canadians (down 3.5 per cent) have come to the Sunshine State.