{"id":174828,"date":"2026-03-02T11:07:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T11:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/174828\/"},"modified":"2026-03-02T11:07:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T11:07:07","slug":"bay-area-bracing-for-influx-of-spring-break-visitors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/174828\/","title":{"rendered":"Bay area bracing for influx of Spring Break visitors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CLEARWATER BEACH, Fla. &#8212; The Tampa Bay area is getting ready for another Spring Break season.<\/p>\n<p>The busy period usually runs until about mid-April.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, Tampa International Airport saw more than 3.3 million passengers during the Spring Break period.<\/p>\n<p>While the Bay area school districts are still a few weeks away from their break, visitors are expected to start arriving this week and continue to visit for the next six weeks or so. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And this year\u2019s spring break arrives on the heels of Gov. Ron DeSantis saying the state recently hit record-breaking milestones in tourism numbers.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, state officials said Florida welcomed 143 million visitors in 2025.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFlorida continues to set the standard as the top travel destination in the nation,\u201d DeSantis said. \u201cWelcoming millions of visitors while delivering real economic benefits for our residents.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CLEARWATER BEACH, Fla. &#8212; The Tampa Bay area is getting ready for another Spring Break season. The busy&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":174829,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[274,558,28,115,596,275,135,137,136,278],"class_list":{"0":"post-174828","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tampa","8":"tag-app-top-stories","9":"tag-business","10":"tag-florida","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-pinellas-county","13":"tag-spectrum-news-staff","14":"tag-tampa","15":"tag-tampa-headlines","16":"tag-tampa-news","17":"tag-top-stories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174828","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=174828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174828\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/174829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}