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TOURISM IN FLORIDA

Florida has announced a record high for visitors last year (2005) - 85.8 million, up 7.6 percent from the year before.

Visit Florida, the state's official source for travel planning, said this is the first time annual visits to Florida have exceeded 80 million people.

Florida Tourism Stats

Bear in mind whilst reading these stats that Europes most popular holiday destination - the Costa del Sol recieves on average 7.1 million foreign tourists a year.

All figures on this page are from VISIT FLORIDA.

Quarter One Visitor Numbers 2005
Visitors	Percent of Total	Most Recent	Value	Change
Total Visitors	100.0%	January-March	23.8 million*	+10.8%

Quarter Two Visitor Numbers 2005

Visitors Percent of Total Most Recent Value Change

Total Visitors
100.0%
April-June 23.4 million* +7.5%

Quarter Three Visitor Numbers 2005
Visitors	Percent of Total	Most Recent	Value	Change
Total Visitors	100.0%	July-September	22.0 million*	+7.5%

* preliminary figure

Quarter Four Visitor Numbers 2005

Visitors Percent of Total Most Recent Value Change

Total Visitors
100.0%
October-December 16.6 million* +0.7%

* preliminary figure

Calendar Year Visitor Numbers for 2005

Visitors Percent of Total Most Recent Value Change

Total Visitors
100.0%

January-December
85.5 million* +7.6%

* preliminary figure

Historic Visitor Numbers (in millions)

Year Domestic Overseas Canadian Total

1999**
51.4

5.8

1.7

58.9

2000

64.7

6.0

2.0

72.8

2001

62.3

5.3

1.9

69.5

2002

67.9

4.4

1.6

73.9

2003

68.7

4.2

1.6

74.6

2004

73.4

4.4

1.9

79.7

2005

79.0*

4.4*

2.1*

85.5*

* preliminary figure

Top International Markets by Number of Visitors (2004):
Canada United Kingdom Germany Venezuela Colombia Mexico Brazil France Italy Japan	1.9 million 1.5 million 265,000 224,000 203,000 207,000 167,000 122,000 113,000 82,000

Seasonality of Visitation to Florida by Quarter (2004):
Jan-Mar Apr-Jun Jul-Sep Oct-Dec	27% 27% 25% 21%

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