{"id":163524,"date":"2026-02-21T04:45:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T04:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/163524\/"},"modified":"2026-02-21T04:45:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T04:45:08","slug":"florida-tourism-breaks-records-with-143-3-million-visitors-in-2025-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/163524\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida tourism breaks records with 143.3 million visitors in 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WCTV) &#8211; Florida continues to shatter tourism records with 143.3 million visitors in 2025, according to an announcement from Gov. Ron DeSantis.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">This is another record-setting year for Florida tourism. The fourth quarter alone saw 33.5 million travelers, marking the highest fourth quarter visitation on record.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Domestic travelers made up the vast majority, but Florida also saw strong growth from international markets like Brazil, which is now the second-largest source of overseas visitors, as well as Argentina and several European countries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | text-center article-text\">View other recent news videos from WCTV here:<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Governor DeSantis highlighted the economic benefits for residents, attributing the success to strategic investments in infrastructure, public safety and the environment. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Florida remains the number one domestic travel destination and a top choice globally. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">To keep up with the latest news as it develops, follow WCTV on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/WCTV.tv\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/wctvnews\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@WCTVEyewitnessNews\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/nextdoor.com\/page\/wctv\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/nextdoor.com\/page\/wctv\/\" target=\"_blank\">Nextdoor<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/nextdoor.com\/page\/wctv\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/nextdoor.com\/page\/wctv\/\" target=\"_blank\"> <\/a>and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WCTV\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">X<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WCTV\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Have a news tip or see an error? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wtvy.com\/2026\/02\/20\/florida-tourism-breaks-records-with-1433-million-visitors-2025\/mailto:news@wctv.tv?subject=Correction%20Needed\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Write to us here<\/a>. Please include the article\u2019s headline in your message.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Be the first to see all the biggest headlines by downloading the WCTV News app. Click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wctv.tv\/2024\/12\/18\/download-free-wctv-mobile-streaming-apps-today\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> to get started.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 WCTV. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WCTV) &#8211; Florida continues to shatter tourism records with 143.3 million visitors in 2025, according to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":163213,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[4101,19307,8448,78056,7404,7289,5620,115,232,234,233,78055],"class_list":{"0":"post-163524","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tallahassee","8":"tag-argentina","9":"tag-brazil","10":"tag-economic-benefits","11":"tag-european-countries","12":"tag-florida-tourism","13":"tag-gov-ron-desantis","14":"tag-governor-desantis","15":"tag-news","16":"tag-tallahassee","17":"tag-tallahassee-headlines","18":"tag-tallahassee-news","19":"tag-tourism-records"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163524\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/163213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}