Among the second-quarter 2020 numbers, Florida saw just 235,000 overseas visitors and 9,000 Canadians.
Florida saw a 12.3% decrease in first-quarter tourism compared with 2019, a reduction of 4.4 million visitors, as the pandemic started to take hold. In all, an estimated 31.39 million visitors came to the state during the first quarter.Among the second-quarter 2020 numbers, Florida saw just 235,000 overseas visitors and 9,000 Canadians, per the numbers posted by Visit Florida.
“Please note that due to the unprecedented nature of the COVID-19 pandemic and the impact it has had on data used to produce visitor estimates, the numbers provided … are likely to face larger-than-normal revisions as new data become available,” Visit Florida said in the note.
As July came to an end, Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine went on the NBC show “Meet the Press” and warned that his state was at a crucial stage with COVID-19 cases rising and “could become Florida.” Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf followed with his own statement that “We don’t want to become Florida.”spoke against moving baseball games to the team’s spring training facility in Dunedin because of player health concerns. Canada’s international travel restrictions regarding the U.S.
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