[BGHater]

‘Orlando’s tourism-dependent economy’

Having a diverse portfolio works on the Street and in the streets.

[Recovering_Democrat]

Maladecki said he expects September's hotel report to also be the worst on record for that month -- worse even than September 2001, when the terrorist attacks grounded all air traffic for several days and triggered a long slump in travel.

I blame Hussein, in the main.

[Clemenza]

Florida has never successfully diversified its economy from leisure and agriculture. You do have a rather tightly-knit financial services center in Miami (largely centered on Private Banking for wealthy Latin Americans) and some tech companies along I-4, but these are not enough to change things. Combine with the fact that salaries in the tourism sector are very low, and some of the worst schools in the United States, and you can see that the Sunshine State is far from being the “paradise” that was sold to the rest of America for many years.