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More than 200 Orlando tourism industry leaders met for the first time in-person since the pandemic at the Orange County Convention Center with an update from VisitOrlando on their plan to take Orlando’s $75 billion tourism industry from recovery back to record-breaking.

ORLANDO, Fla. – Visit Orlando is starting a new year with a new campaign and new CEO and President Casandra Metaj. “My priority is all about recovery, recovery, recovery,” Metaj said Tuesday. Visit Orlando also released data that showed hotel occupancy was the highest since the pandemic began the week after Christmas in December at 50.1%. “We are still well below prior year levels,” said Daryl Cronk, senior director of market research at Visit Orlando. The lowest tourism development tax collection was reported in April with only a 12% average occupancy in the hotels, according to Visit Orlando.