While Florida’s theme parks begin to reopen following their months-long closures due to the COVID-19 pandemic, we’re now starting to see the economic impact that the closure had. WFTV reporter Deanna Allbrittin posted on Twitter that Orange County only collected $765,900 in Tourist Development Tax revenues for the month of April, a 97% decrease from April the year before. For context, Allbrittin added that April’s revenues was roughly equivalent to the revenues collected from 1980, back when Walt Disney World […]

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