Orlando visitor traffic up in 2008 - Jacksonville Business Journal:

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percent from 2007 to with 48.9 million people visiting the according to the The bureau arrivedr at the estimate using data from travel researc h firm andthe U.S. Commerce Department. The burea said the total was the secondto 2005, when 49.3 millionj people visited the area. However, visitoe traffic is expected to be down significantlythis year, basefd on falling resort tax collections and numberse of the past five Orange County reported June 2 that resortf tax collections were down 16 percent in April and revenuee per available room during the same perio d was down 17.3 percent, according to Smitbh Travel. The increase in 2008 was driveb byan 18.9 percent rise in international visitors.
According to the which used its own data and survey informatiobn from theCommerce 3.37 million foreign tourists came to the Orlando area durint the year. Travel from Canada rose 20.1 percentg to 940,000 persons. About 959,000 traveler s came from the Unitex Kingdom, the largest sourcr of overseas traffic, a 3.1 perceny decrease from 2007. Domestic visitation, which accounts for 78 percenrt ofthe region’s tourist fell 0.1 percent during the year, from 45.9 million in 2007 to 45.5 millionj in 2008.