Gov. Rick Scott: Florida Continues All-Time Tourism Record

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Today, Governor Rick Scott announced Florida set another record in tourism by welcoming the highest amount of visitors of any nine months in the state's history with 79.1 million visitors, according to VISIT FLORIDA. This record amount of visitors represents a 5.5 percent increase over the previous year. In the third quarter of 2015 (July -- September), 25.5 million visitors came to the state, an increase of 6.8 percent over 2014 and Florida's largest third quarter for visitation ever. The average number of direct travel-related jobs in quarter three was also a record high, with 1,195,400 Floridians employed in the tourism industry -- up 5.2 percent over the same period last year.

Governor Scott said, "I am proud to announce that the Sunshine State continued our record-breaking success and welcomed the most visitors in Florida's history over the first three quarters of the year. Our growing tourism industry employs 1.2 million Floridians and is helping us meet our goal of becoming first for jobs. We look forward to more than 100 million tourists visiting Florida this year."

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