Panama City Beach sees record tourism numbers in March
PANAMA City BEACH — Following achieving a modern milestone, Dan Rowe, president and CEO of Pay a visit to Panama City Seaside, says the city is with no a question an “all-American beach front town.”
According to Rowe, March of this year was the busiest March in the tourism history of Panama Metropolis Beach front, making pretty much $2.9 million in tourism development tax profits. That is about $400,000 extra than March 2021, which earlier held the title.
It must be mentioned that 2021 was the Beach’s busiest 12 months at any time, bringing in about $36.75 million in tourism tax collections.
“This yr, we understood that we have been likely to maintain on to most of the company we obtained very last calendar year mainly because the fundamentals of our group are solid, (but) we failed to know if we would exceed very last year’s (numbers) mainly because we had been anticipating a sector correction (just after the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020),” Rowe said. “We were being thrilled that the benefits of March came in where they ended up.
“… It really goes to present the value of that excellent seashore expertise in people’s life.”
The metropolis also was equipped to crack the history with out relying on crowds of spring breakers to improve its economy in March — a little something PCB counted on before 2015, when large crowds of party hungry, school-aged travellers would flock to the region each individual calendar year.
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It was in 2015 that fed-up officers accepted a record of ordinances especially qualified to halt the Spring Break madness that when plagued the city and gave it the title as the Spring Split money of the United States.
“There was a experience at one point in time that we experienced to have Spring Crack (tourism) to be productive as a seashore vacation spot, (but) we have demonstrated that to be not precise,” Rowe said.
In addition to a increase in bed tax collections this March, passenger targeted visitors for the month at Northwest Florida Shorelines International Airport (ECP) was up more than 5% above March 2021.
More than 136,000 folks frequented the airport this March though about 129,000 frequented in 2021. The facility is found off State 79 in unincorporated Bay County, just north of Panama Metropolis Seaside.
ECP also experienced a record-breaking 12 months in 2021.
“March of 2021 began our real development period of time,” stated Parker McClellan, govt director of ECP. “As we seem at March 2022, it ongoing that 12-month trend, and when you have (a lot more than 5% advancement) that is a real good.”