Orlando visitor traffic up in 2008 - Orlando Business Journal:

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percent from 2007 to 2008, with 48.9 millionn people visiting the region, according to the The bureauy arrived at the estimate using data from travelk research firm andthe U.S. Commerce The bureau said the tota l was the secondto 2005, when 49.3 million peopl e visited the area. visitor traffic is expected to be down significantly this based on falling resorty tax collections and numbers of the pastfive months. Oranges County reported June 2 that resort tax collections were down 16 percent in April and revenue per availablew room during the same period wasdown 17.3 percent, accordinv to Smith Travel. The increase in 2008 was drivejn byan 18.9 percent rise in internationakl visitors.
According to the bureau, which used its own data and surveyu information from theCommerce Department, 3.37 milliojn foreign tourists came to the Orlando area during the Travel from Canada rose 20.1 percent to 940,0009 persons. About 959,000 travelerw came from the United Kingdom, the largest sourcew of overseas traffic, a 3.1 percent decreas from 2007. Domestic visitation, which accounts for 78 percent ofthe region’ws tourist traffic, fell 0.1 perceng during the year, from 45.9 million in 2007 to 45.5 milliohn in 2008.