Another county tourism record set

Visit St. Pete/Clearwater reports historic bed tax collections in June


  • By Louis Llovio
  • | 12:15 p.m. August 11, 2021
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FILE: Tourism bed tax collections set records in Pinellas County.
FILE: Tourism bed tax collections set records in Pinellas County.
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LARGO —Another day and another tourism record is broken in Tampa Bay. This time it’s Visit St. Pete/Clearwater and the record number is the amount of bed tax dollars collected in June.

The local tourism group says the amount of money collected in June rose 94% from June of last year to $8.2 million. That’s the most ever collected in the month, according to an email sent out by the organization.

 

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