Record-setting recovery: Pinellas tourism thrives after storms

Record-setting recovery: Pinellas tourism thrives after storms

Resiliency is the capacity to withstand or recover quickly from challenges, which objectively describes Pinellas County’s tourism industry. Visitors contributed a record $8.29 million to local tax coffers in January, just three months after Hurricanes Helene and Milton decimated the area. That number will likely continue trending higher as tourism officials await over 1,400 rooms reopening – most by the end of the summer. St. Petersburg helped o…