Florida Tourism Agency Reports Record Number of Visitors in 2003.

Florida Keys Keynoter, Marathon Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Feb. 25--A record 75.6 million visitors traveled to Florida during 2003, exceeding the previous record set in 2002 by nearly 2.5 percent, state officials said Monday.

According to preliminary end-of-year data released by Visit Florida, the state's official tourism marketing corporation, the estimated number of U.S. visitors to the state in 2003 totaled 69.6 million, an increase of 2.5 percent over 2002, while the number of Canadian visitors surged nearly 6 percent to just under 1.7 mill