Job market posts major gains in region

Tourism remains behind other sectors in recovering jobs lost amid the early days of the pandemic.

  • By Business Observer Staff
  • | 1:00 p.m. December 9, 2021
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At least three of the biggest counties in the region — Hillsborough, Lee and Sarasota — have been setting monthly bed tax collection records, as the tourism spigot opens all across Florida. Other counties and towns are consistently posting robust tourism numbers, too.  

 

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