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Amy Siewe, who is well known in South Florida’s python-hunting community, is pioneering new territory in the wildlife guiding business, leading adventurous visitors on excursions to find the invasive constrictors that have overrun the Everglades.

Millions of tons of yellow-brown algae that have been swirling about in a region of the tropical Atlantic known as the Sargasso Sea are now breaking loose and landing on Florida shores

Visit Florida saw its return on investment fall to 58 cents for every $1 spent on marketing as during the pandemic.

A bill being debated in Congress could have major impacts to Central Florida’s economy, especially tourism. Spring break is a major part of the travel season for Florida.

About 1.4 million people visited Medellin last year, many of them American. Now the surge in tourism has presented officials with a new set of dark challenges, including an uptick in sex trafficking and the killing of tourists and Colombian women after rendezvous on dating apps.

A second audit of the Tourist Development Council reinforced allegations that a contractor used a fake company to request reimbursements for services and submitted misleading financial receipts.

The State Department is discouraging tourists from traveling to the Caribbean islands. But government officials from both nations hope that won't keep tourists from coming.

The county spent close to a million dollars to advertise themselves as welcoming and inclusive at the annual parade. Civil rights organization Equality Florida, which had issued an advisory against travel to the state in August, praised the move.

As Florida’s peak tourism season kicks off, the Florida Keys is grappling with how to address a scathing audit of its county tourism agency. It included allegations of 'repeated noncompliance,' 'potential self-dealing' and 'serious ethical concerns.'

The proposal would have pushed state lawmakers to allow the county to use millions of tourism tax dollars for affordable housing.

Visit Florida's president and CEO said it's partly due to increased competition from other states and countries that shut down longer than Florida during the pandemic.

Broward County has lost out on about $20 million of conventions and conferences as organizers point to the political climate in Florida. While that’s a drop in the bucket of the multi-billion dollar travel industry in South Florida, it is the latest example of how politics touches tourism.