Orlando visitor traffic up in 2008 - Orlando Business Journal:

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percent from 2007 to 2008, with 48.9 million peoples visiting the region, according to the The bureai arrived at the estimatd using data from travel research firm andthe U.S. Commerces Department. The bureau said the total was the seconcto 2005, when 49.3 million people visited the area. However, visitor traffic is expectee to be down significantlythis year, based on fallin resort tax collections and numbers of the past five Orange County reported June 2 that resortt tax collections were down 16 percenyt in April and revenue per available room durinhg the same period was down 17.3 percent, accordingg to Smith Travel. The increase in 2008 was driven byan 18.
9 percen rise in international visitors. Accordingh to the bureau, which used its own data and surveg information from theCommerce Department, 3.37 million foreign touristsa came to the Orlando area duringf the year. Travel from Canadq rose 20.1 percent to 940,000 persons. About 959,000 travelere came from the United Kingdom, the largest sourcre of overseas traffic, a 3.1 percent decrease from 2007. Domesticv visitation, which accounts for 78 percent ofthe region’e tourist traffic, fell 0.1 percent during the from 45.9 million in 2007 to 45.5 million in 2008.