FLORIDA KEYS TOURISM COUNCIL SURVEY INDICATES INCREASED BOOKINGS FOR 1995.KEY WEST, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 14, 1995--A survey of domestic travel agents and tour operators in key feeder markets for the Florida Keys Florida Keys, chain of coral and limestone islands and reefs, c.150 mi (240 km) long, extending from Virginia Key, S of Miami Beach, to Key West, and forming the southern extremity of Florida. & Key West revealed increased 1995 winter bookings compared to the same time period a year ago, the Monroe County Monroe County is the name of seventeen counties in the United States, named after President James Monroe:
TDC Time-to-Digital Converter TDC Tabular Data Control TDC Total Development Cost TDC Texas Department of Corrections TDC The Discovery Channel TDC Torpedo Data Computer TDC Theater Deployable Communications ) reported Friday. More than 35 percent of respondents indicated they had processed more travel arrangements for clients than a year ago. Slightly more than 50 percent said their advance bookings were the same, while almost 12 percent reported decreases in Keys trips. The travel trade study was conducted by the TDC in late December with survey forms facsimiled to almost 300 agents and operators. Seventy seven agents and six tour operators, or 28 percent of the sampling, responded. "Although tourism flow from domestic sources represents one facet of our business, we are very encouraged by the results of the survey," said Mayor Samuel Feiner, chairman of the Monroe County Tourist Development Council. "It seems to mirror the positive comments we are hearing from Keys' hoteliers who say their bookings are improved over last year." The survey also queried the travel trade about winter bookings to South Florida, defined as Miami, Fort Lauderdale Fort Lauderdale (lô`dərdāl), residential, commercial, and resort city (1990 pop. 149,377), seat of Broward co., SE Fla., on the Atlantic coast; settled around a fort built (c.1837) in the Seminole War, inc. 1911. and Palm Beach. Slightly more than 26 percent reported increased business to South Florida, with almost 60 percent saying it was the same and 14 percent noted a decrease in reservations. "We are also pleased that our neighbors to the north are showing improvement," Feiner said. "I know the Miami community has worked diligently dil·i·gent adj. Marked by persevering, painstaking effort. See Synonyms at busy. [Middle English, from Old French, from Latin d the past year to solve some of its tourism-related challenges and the survey seems to indicate a positive turnaround for other South Florida areas as well." CONTACT: Stuart Newman Stuart Alan Newman (born April 4, 1945 in New York City) is a professor of cell biology and anatomy at New York Medical College in Valhalla, NY, United States. His research interests center around three program areas: cellular and molecular mechanisms of vertebrate limb Associates 1-800-ASK-KEYS or (305) 461-3300 For: The Florida Keys & Key West |
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