Scott PowersDecember 14, 2021
8min850
A statewide proposal affecting tourist taxes emerges from debates in Orange County.
Tag: Tourism Development Council
Scott PowersDecember 14, 2021Scott PowersOctober 26, 2017
2min235
A new bill filed Thursday morning by Sen. Jeff Brandes would expand the field of projects that local governments can spend tourism tax dollars on to include public works infrastructure that would assist tourism. Filed SB 658, the bill would open the door for local governments to spend tourism dollars on roads, bridges, water and sewer […]
A.G. GancarskiJuly 24, 2017
7min293
Jacksonville City Council President Anna Brosche met with her immediate predecessor, Councilwoman Lori Boyer, on Monday. The topic: tourism, and Jacksonville’s vehicle for driving tourist traffic: the Tourism Development Council. The Boyer Presidency saw a revision in the funding model for the TDC, yet tourism marketing is still very much a work in progress for Jacksonville, a city […]
Scott PowersSeptember 9, 2016
8min277
In the next move in Orlando’s tourism money chess match, Orange County Mayor Teresa Jacobs has agreed to put $45 million toward finishing Orlando’s Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts. The move, assuming Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer agrees and the appropriate boards all sign off, means the postponed-into-limbo final phase known as the acoustic […]
Scott PowersApril 6, 2016
4min302
Orange County Mayor Teresa Jacobs wants her county to hold off on a new proposal for spending tourist tax money because she thinks any action now would preempt voters, who might get a chance to vote on the tax in November. And unlike Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer, who endorsed the plan Friday hours after it was proposed […]