Gov. Jeb Bush spoke at the Gaylord Palms Hotel in Kissimmee at his annual conference on tourism Sunday.
Second-quarter tourism figures show an estimated 19.4 million visitors came to Florida in April, May, and June of this year, WESH NewsChannel 2 reported.
Tourism was down 2 percent in the second quarter of 2002 compared with the same time last year, reports indicated.
Bush praised the industry for the quick comeback, and figures also showed that most of Florida's domestic visitors came to the state by car rather than airplane for the first time in years.
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