Orlando Records 75 Million Visitors, Ranked #1 US Tourist Destination

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The US Travel Industry has reached a new milestone as Orlando records 75 million visitors for the year 2018, the tourism officials of Visit Orlando in the US have announced this today at The National Travel & Tourism Week, in the midst of a gathering of 1000 tourism and community leaders. Compared to 2017 there has been an increase in the number of visitations by 4.2% in 2018 and this is the very reason why Orlando managed to regain its #1 position as the most visited tourist destination in the US.

Visit Orlando is the official tourism and marketing organization that represents Orlando, Visit Orlando has its presence worldwide in many countries across the world.

Orlando is a prime tourist destination in the US, famous for housing seven top theme parks in the world. Most notable about this top tourist destination is it has the maximum number of lodging options than any other destination in the world.

Orlando’s tourist footfall from its potential visitors from other countries like United Kingdom has not decreased, the number of visitors from United Kingdom in 2018 has increased by 1.9% when compared to 2017 and the recorded figure is 1,039,000 visitors.

There have been new groundbreaking Milestones recorded by Orlando for the year 2018, first the number of US visitors reached an all time high of 68.55 million (+4.1%), second the number of international visitors has increased by 5.4% reaching 6.48 million, third Orlando International Airport (OIA) regains its position as Florida’s busiest airport in Florida with 47.7 million passengers and fourth OIA’S International arrivals increased by 11.64 % reaching 6.6 million passengers.

 

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