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Over 28 million people visited the county in 2024 — one in five tourists to Florida spent some of their trip in Miami-Dade. But a slowing global economy and growing uncertainty from changes in trade and immigration enforcement by the Trump administration is expected to hit tourism this year.

On The Florida Roundup, host Tom Hudson spoke with Rolando Aedo with the Greater Miami Convention and Visitors Bureau about potential implications of altering tourist development taxes.

The city of Fort Lauderdale announced Wednesday its law enforcement plan for this spring break season, which includes tripling the amount of officers on patrol and beach sweeps with police mounted on horseback.

The S.S. United States, the largest passenger ship ever built in America, left Philadelphia under tow on Wednesday, eventually to be sunk off the Gulf Coast.

South Florida doesn't do a lot of import and export with Canada, but more than 1 million Canadian tourists visit the region each year. Florida oranges are also a big import for Canada.

Young, who has spent nearly six years at Visit Florida, oversaw the agency's efforts to promote tourism in Florida and helped guide a tourism rebound after COVID-19. The agency received $80 million in state money this year, up from $50 million in the 2019-2020 fiscal year.

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.