{"id":85,"date":"2012-02-17T14:52:00","date_gmt":"2012-02-17T14:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/sunny-side-up-florida-broke-tourism-record-in-2011\/"},"modified":"2018-11-15T10:59:18","modified_gmt":"2018-11-15T10:59:18","slug":"sunny-side-up-florida-broke-tourism-record-in-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/sunny-side-up-florida-broke-tourism-record-in-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunny Side Up: Florida Broke Tourism Record in 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Photo: Fareportal Image Gallery\" src=\"\/miles-away\/wp-content\/uploads\/files\/2012\/2\/florida_tourism.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Fareportal Image Gallery\" width=\"450\" height=\"340\" \/><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Flordia saw a big jump in the number of visitors in 2011 <\/strong><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The sun is shining a little brighter on Florida tourism today. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sun-sentinel.com\/business\/careers\/fl-florida-tourism-record-20120217,0,2042125.story\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">According to a report in the Sun-Sentinel<\/a>, the Sunshine State welcomed 85.9 million visitors in 2011.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>That figure marks a 4.4 percent increase over 2010 and sets a new record for the most visits in the state\u2019s history. The previous record was set back in 2007 before the global recession hit.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Tourism numbers grew across the board, with the number of visitors arriving on <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/flights\/cheap-flights-to-florida-fl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">flights to Florida<\/a><\/strong> up both domestically and internationally. The biggest increase came in the number of overseas visits, with a 16 point jump year-over-year.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The growth helped the state add 38,000 jobs in 2011, bringing the rate of tourism-related employment near pre-recession levels.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo: Fareportal Image Gallery <\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Flordia saw a big jump in the number of visitors in 2011 &nbsp; The sun is shining a little brighter on Florida tourism today. According to a report in the Sun-Sentinel, the Sunshine State welcomed 85.9 million visitors in 2011. &nbsp; That figure marks a 4.4 percent increase over 2010 and sets a new [&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-85","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85","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=85"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97201248,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85\/revisions\/97201248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}