Tuesday's Afternoon Update
Tuesday's Afternoon Update | 2/16/2021 Florida tourist count in 2020 falls to lowest number since 2010 The COVID-19 pandemic ended a decade of record-setting tourism numbers in Florida, with the industry seeing a 34% drop in visitors in 2020 compared with the prior year. The state tourism-marketing agency Visit Florida posted preliminary figures from the fourth quarter and for the full year late Monday, showing 86.714 million visitors to the state during 2020. That was the lowest annual total since 2010. Visit Florida President and CEO Dana Young said an estimated 20.625 million travelers in...