Jax Ranked 35th Among U.S. Visitor Destinations

[I-10east]

Jax has moved up seven spots from last year (Jax 2012 ranked 42nd)

www.jacksonville.com/news/metro/2013-09-12/story/jacksonville-ranks-higher-among-us-visitor-destinations

[thelakelander]

Where does St. Augustine rank? Or is it included in Jax's number?

[I-10east]

^^^I'm not sure, I was trying to find that hotels.com list.

[CityLife]

Where does St. Augustine rank? Or is it included in Jax's number?

Yea I'm curious if it includes Amelia, PVB, and St. Augustine. If Miami is ranked 13th, I'm going to assume they aren't counting Miami Beach, Key Biscayne, etc.

I'd also be curious to know where they get their data from. If its just hotels.com bookings, its not even remotely accurate.

[coredumped]

Mostly because of one spark. Just think of the increase in visitors if we had a larger convention center!

[Noone]

Just  think of the 32 other organizations that were identified by Paul Astleford the new CEO of VISIT JACKSONVILLE that were hindering Tourism were to get out of the way and really open up Public Access and economic opportunity especially as it relates to our St. johns River our American Heritage River a FEDERAL Initiative in our new highly restricted DIA zone.

DIA meeting in less than an hour 1st floor city hall and it's open to the Public and it will have everything to do with Tourism. Anyone going?

[I-10east]

Here's goes some info on Jax with this hotels.com list. It still doesn't have the entire list though.

http://press.hotels.com/en-us/hpi/north-american-hotel-rates-rise-3-percent-according-to-hotels-com-hotel-price-index/ 

[FSBA]

I remember the Welcome to Rockville people were touting alot of people were getting hotel rooms for that show.