Panama City Beach sees record tourism numbers in March
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PANAMA Town BEACH — Immediately after reaching a current milestone, Dan Rowe, president and CEO of Pay a visit to Panama Metropolis Seashore, said the metropolis is with no a question an “all-American beach front town.”
In accordance to Rowe, March of this year was the busiest March in the tourism history of Panama Town Seashore, creating nearly $2.9 million in tourism improvement tax revenue. That is about $400,000 more than March 2021, which beforehand held the title.
It need to be famous that 2021 was the Beach’s busiest 12 months at any time, bringing in about $36.75 million in tourism tax collections.
“This 12 months, we understood that we were being going to keep on to most of the company we attained previous year simply because the fundamentals of our group are sturdy, (but) we did not know if we would exceed previous year’s (quantities) since we were anticipating a industry correction (immediately after the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020),” Rowe stated. “We were being thrilled that the success of March arrived in the place they were.
“… It truly goes to clearly show the relevance of that top quality seaside practical experience in people’s life.”
The metropolis also was equipped to break the document without relying on crowds of spring breakers to strengthen its economy in March — some thing PCB counted on before 2015, when substantial crowds of celebration hungry, college-aged travelers would flock to the location each and every calendar year.
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It was in 2015 that fed-up officials authorized a list of ordinances particularly targeted to halt the Spring Crack madness that at the time plagued the town and gave it the title as the Spring Break funds of the United States.
“There was a experience at 1 place in time that we experienced to have Spring Crack (tourism) to be prosperous as a beach front vacation spot, (but) we have established that to be not precise,” Rowe said.
In addition to a strengthen in mattress tax collections this March, passenger targeted visitors for the month at Northwest Florida Shorelines Global Airport (ECP) was up extra than 5% around March 2021.
Extra than 136,000 persons frequented the airport this March though about 129,000 frequented in 2021. The facility is located off Condition 79 in unincorporated Bay County, just north of Panama Town Seaside.
ECP also had a history-breaking year in 2021.
“March of 2021 started our actual development period of time,” said Parker McClellan, government director of ECP. “As we glimpse at March 2022, it ongoing that 12-month trend, and when you have (additional than 5% development) which is a serious positive.”
