Orlando Draws Global Attention at IPW 2023!

This week, your Visit Orlando team, along with 18 members showcased Orlando during the nation’s largest travel trade show, U.S. Travel Association’s IPW. Held in San Antonio, Texas, for 2023, IPW experienced strong attendance with more than 5,000 attendees, including nearly 1,400 international…

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Visit Orlando Announces 2022 Visitation Numbers

This week, we celebrated National Travel & Tourism Week (NTTW) and the impact the travel industry makes on our community. Over 900 tourism and community leaders joined us at our annual Travel & Tourism event where we announced Orlando welcomed 74 million annual visitors in 2022. With a 25% increase…

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Get Ready to Celebrate National Travel & Tourism Week

On Sunday, we start the industry-wide celebration of National Travel & Tourism Week (NTTW), which recognizes travel and tourism’s enormous impact on communities across America. To celebrate, your Visit Orlando team has planned multiple activities showcasing how our region’s travel and tourism…

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Visit Orlando's UK Roadshow Achieves Record Numbers

Visit Orlando, in association with Walt Disney World Resort, Universal Orlando Resort, and SeaWorld Parks & Entertainment, hosted Orlando Live!, a series of innovative in-person training events, in London, Manchester and Glasgow, on April 24–27, 2023. The event was the largest member delegation in…

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Visit Orlando Promotes Travel at Destination Capitol Hill

This week, U.S. Travel Association hosted its premier legislative fly-in, Destination Capitol Hill, in Washington, D.C. As part of the delegation, Visit Orlando joined industry leaders across the country in speaking with members of Congress about key issues confronting the growth of domestic and…

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Celebrate #407Day by Supporting Local Businesses

Today, Visit Orlando, along with the City of Orlando, Orange County and the Orlando Economic Partnership, celebrated #407Day (April 7) by unveiling our “Unbelievably Real” mural on the corner of Orange Avenue and Pine Street in downtown Orlando. #407Day is a celebration inspired by our…

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Celebrating the Importance of Meetings

Yesterday we celebrated Global Meetings Industry Day (GMID) — a yearly celebration to showcase the proven value that business meetings, conferences, conventions, incentive travel, trade shows and exhibitions bring to businesses and the economy. According to U.S. Travel Association, in 2022, there…

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Sharing the Importance of Florida Tourism in Tallahassee

Florida's annual legislative session is underway in Tallahassee, and this week I joined a statewide delegation of colleagues to speak on behalf of our industry. Florida Tourism Day brings together destination organizations and industry partners from around the state. It is an excellent opportunity…

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