{"id":266447,"date":"2026-05-11T11:02:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T11:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/266447\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T11:02:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T11:02:07","slug":"visit-orlando-welcomes-record-number-of-visitors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/266447\/","title":{"rendered":"Visit Orlando welcomes record number of visitors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-208289\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Orlando-Numbers-Trio_1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s the sound of celebration after Visit Orlando announced it welcomed 76.7 million visitors in 2025 \u2014 a 1.8% increase over 2024 and the highest visitation total in the destination\u2019s history.<\/p>\n<p>The tourist organization reported that domestic visitation grew by 2.2%, reaching 70.3 million visitors \u2014 also a record.<\/p>\n<p>Visits by Floridians increased by 3.4%; however, the domestic visitor mix remained predominantly out-of-state.<\/p>\n<p>Overnight visitation remained strong, accounting for 70% of domestic visitors, or 49.2 million travellers, representing a 1.8% year\u2011over\u2011year increase.<\/p>\n<p>International visitation totaled 6.3 million visitors in 2025, down 2.4%, or approximately 156,000 visitors, largely due to a decline in travel from Canada.<\/p>\n<p>As for Canada, it remained Orlando\u2019s top international market, despite a 13.3% decline from 2024, attracting 1.1 million visitors in 2025.<\/p>\n<p>The U.K., Brazil, Mexico, Colombia and Argentina complete the list of top international markets for the region.<\/p>\n<p>Casandra Matej, president and CEO of Visit Orlando, said that: \u201cCanada remains Orlando\u2019s top international market, welcoming more than 1.1 million visitors in 2025.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And Matej continued: \u201cCanada continues to be an incredibly important market for our destination, and we remain committed to sustained marketing, trade opportunities and public relations efforts to support long-term recovery and renewed growth.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Several markets also reached new record highs, including the U.S, Mexico, Colombia and Japan, all of which partially helped offset softer performance from Canada.<\/p>\n<p>At the beginning of this year, Orlando International Airport launched its first nonstop passenger charter flights to Tokyo, marking Florida\u2019s first direct service to the Asia Pacific.<\/p>\n<p>Orlando\u2019s top five international origin markets in 2025 included:<\/p>\n<p>Canada: 1,119,300 (down 13.3%)<br \/>\nUnited Kingdom: 933,500 (up 2.8%)<br \/>\nBrazil: 736,300 (up 5.6%)<br \/>\nMexico: 458,500 (up 4.6%)<br \/>\nColombia: 360,000 (up 5.0%)<\/p>\n<p>Overall, Orlando\u2019s visitor mix in 2025 continued to skew toward leisure travel, representing 81% domestic leisure visitors, 10% domestic business travelers and 8% international visitors.<\/p>\n<p>The group meetings segment showed strong momentum, increasing 3.1% year over year to reach 5.8 million visitors, reinforcing Orlando\u2019s position as the nation\u2019s leading meetings destination.<\/p>\n<p>For more, go to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.VisitOrlando.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">www.VisitOrlando.com<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.VisitOrlando.org\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">www.VisitOrlando.org<\/a>\u00a0or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.OrlandoMeeting.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">www.OrlandoMeeting.com<\/a> .<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"That\u2019s the sound of celebration after Visit Orlando announced it welcomed 76.7 million visitors in 2025 \u2014 a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":266448,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[18181,139,141,140,11022],"class_list":["post-266447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-casandra-matej","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news","tag-visit-orlando"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266447","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=266447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266447\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/266448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}