Just 2.2% fewer people visited the state in April through June than did in 2019.
As Florida now faces one of the largest Covid-19 surges in the world, a new report from the state’s tourism board finds its tourism industry has largely rebounded, with nearly as many visitors—and even more Americans—traveling to the state between April and June as in 2019.... [+]from Visit Florida, which looked at tourism during the second quarter of 2021, found an estimated 31.7 million visitors went to Florida between April 1 and June 30.
That’s only 2.2% below how many people visited during that period in 2019 and 223.4% higher than in 2020, as well asEven more Americans visited Florida this spring than did in 2019—the state received 30.6 million domestic visitors, a 6% increase over 2019—but only 1.1 million overseas visitors traveled to Florida, which is down 57.9% from 2019.
The number of visitors arriving by plane versus car was “comparable” to 2019, Visit Florida noted, with 35.9% arriving by air and 64.1% arriving by non-plane transportation. The state’s busiest airport was Orlando International Airport with 5.4 million passengers traveling through , followed by Miami with 4.9 million passengers , and seven airports had even higher traffic than in 2019, particularly Sarasota and Key West.
Hotel occupancy in the second quarter was at 71.1%, up from just 33.3% in 2020, with hotels getting increasingly busy over the course of the quarter.The state’s second-quarter traveler numbers represent an “incredible achievement for our state’s economic recovery,” Visit Florida President and CEO Dana Young said in a statement.21,706.
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