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Orange County Mayor Jerry Demings has blessed a plan to cut tourist tax revenues for the Visit Orlando marketing agency in an 11th-hour memo, completing a consensus as county commissioners head into a decision-making session today. With Demings’ direction clear in his Monday memo, the commissioners aren’t likely to clash much in the session. They’re mostly on the same page. The commissioners’ ...
The property is owned by the onePULSE foundation, which received $10 million in tourist development tax funding to buy and develop the museum.
For the first time since March, the monthly tourist-tax collection exceeded the total from the same period in the previous year, though just barely. September collections, announced this morning by Comptroller Phil Diamond, rose less than 1% over September 2022 to $24.6 million for the month, but the modest gain capped a record fiscal year total of $359.3 million. The previous best for a ...
Mark Tester with the Orange County Convention Center calling the 2022-2023 fiscal year a solid year with nearly 160 events at the venue.
Orange County commissioners doled out nearly $800 million in future tourist-tax revenues this week but not a penny for three Orlando venues recommended for funding by a citizens review panel. Commissioners raised a myriad of questions Tuesday about funding requests for the Amway Center, Camping World Stadium and the Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts, totaling about $3.8 billion, all ...