Thursday, May 6, 2010

Greater Fort Lauderdale and Florida Tourism Fast Facts – 2009 Stats

Did you know?

Over 80 million people visited Florida.
10.57 million people visited Greater Fort Lauderdale.

968,400 people were directly employed in travel related jobs in Florida.
117,515 people were directly employed in travel related jobs in Greater Fort Lauderdale.

Tourism spending (tourism/recreation taxable sales) was $60.9 billion in Florida.
Tourism spending was $8.47 billion in Greater Fort Lauderdale.

64.8 million total passengers boarded a plane in Florida.
21 million total passengers were welcomed at the Fort Lauderdale/Hollywood International Airport. And over 12 million passengers cruised from all Florida ports.
3.1 million passengers cruised from Port Everglades.

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