A record number of tourists are visiting Florida. In the first quarter of 2014, about 26.7 million visitors arrived, a 2% increase from 2013.
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Is there a breakdown of visitors by nationality ?
I’m always surprised by the number of Canadian “Snowbirds” who come down for 3 months.
Canada’s population is about 35 million total, so if all 26.7 million visitors to Florida were from Canada, that would mean there’d be nobody left to shovel all that snow!
Kidding aside, Canadians love to travel, especially in the winter. Florida is popular, especially with those in the eastern part of the country. Canadians living out west are much more likely to go to Arizona, Palm Springs, Mexico or Hawaii.
I don’t know where the national breakdown is, but lots of Europeans like to bring their families to Disney World. I’d suspect there’s more of them there than Canadians, eh?