Florida tourism hits record high for 2015
Florida tourism is on pace to pass the highly anticipated 100-million visitor mark for 2015, with over 54.1 million visitors coming to the Sunshine State in the first half of 2015. New quarterly numbers released Wednesday from VISIT FLORIDA, the state’s tourism arm, show a 5.8 percent increase over last year and the highest number of visitors of any six months in the state’s history. In just the second quarter of 2015 ending June 30, 25.8 million visitors came to Florida, an increase of 5.5…