{"id":36324,"date":"2010-08-02T13:49:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-02T13:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/bp-oil-spill-slows-florida-s-tourism-recovery\/"},"modified":"2010-08-02T13:49:00","modified_gmt":"2010-08-02T13:49:00","slug":"bp-oil-spill-slows-florida-s-tourism-recovery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/bp-oil-spill-slows-florida-s-tourism-recovery\/","title":{"rendered":"BP Oil Spill Slows Florida&#8217;s Tourism Recovery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\">\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">\n<strong>&nbsp;Florida&#39;s tourism not to pick back up until 2012 <\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nSean Snaith, an economist from University of Central Florida, has weighed in on the trade group study that said Florida&rsquo;s tourism industry could stand to lose up to $18.6 billion for the damaging BP oil spill.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nIn his latest statewide declaration, Snaith said he concurs with the general conclusion reached by the U.S. Travel Association: The spill will be detrimental to state revenues over time. However, Snaith believes the numbers may be exaggerated a bit.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nNevertheless, Snaith said the spill has slowed Florida&rsquo;s economic recovery for at least a year, and he predicted that Florida&rsquo;s leisure and hospitality won&rsquo;t continue to develop until 2012.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<em>Source:<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.orlandosentinel.com\/business\/os-cfb-tourism-080210-20100802,0,326339.story\" target=\"_blank\"> Orlando Sentinel <\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp;Florida&#39;s tourism not to pick back up until 2012 &nbsp; Sean Snaith, an economist from University of Central Florida, has weighed in on the trade group study that said Florida&rsquo;s tourism industry could stand to lose up to $18.6 billion for the damaging BP oil spill. &nbsp; In his latest statewide declaration, Snaith said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36324\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}