{"id":318937,"date":"2026-06-25T02:59:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T02:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/318937\/"},"modified":"2026-06-25T02:59:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T02:59:10","slug":"visit-st-pete-clearwater-reports-record-high-tourist-tax-collections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/318937\/","title":{"rendered":"Visit St. Pete-Clearwater reports record high tourist tax collections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>June 24, 2026 &#8211; Visit St. Pete-Clearwater reports Pinellas County&#8217;s tourism industry generated nearly $11.5 million in tourist development tax (TDT) collections in April, the highest April total on record, surpassing the same month last year by 14%. February through April, the &#8220;high season,&#8221; generated $36,159,000 &#8211; the highest ever TDT collection for the period &#8211; with nearly 5 million visitors.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/stpetecatalyst.com\/zaps\" class=\"btn btn-aqua\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">More Zaps<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/stpetecatalyst.com\" class=\"btn btn-aqua\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Frontpage<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"June 24, 2026 &#8211; Visit St. Pete-Clearwater reports Pinellas County&#8217;s tourism industry generated nearly $11.5 million in tourist&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":88456,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-318937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318937","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=318937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318937\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=318937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=318937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=318937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}