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| 10/31/2016

› Everglades bus barnstorms through South Florida
Sending fresh water south to preserve the Everglades and Florida Bay will be the focus of a statewide bus tour ending in Islamorada.

› New Fort Myers Beach plans could contain 'adult water park'
Too big for the Beach was the reason a sweeping mixed use resort project went down in flames last March before the first application was filed. Now TPI Hospitality CEO Tom Torgerson is back with Times Square Resorts.

› Hotel occupancy, rates up in September for Broward, Palm Beach counties
September is proving again to be a strong off-season month for tourism in Broward and Palm Beach counties year over year, a recent report from data and analytics specialist STR shows.

› Disney World, SeaWorld tweak procedures to fight ticket fraud
Some of Orlando's big theme parks are tweaking the methods they use to fight the black market for stolen and used tickets. Tourists can lose hundreds or thousands of dollars from buying invalid tickets that the theme parks often confiscate.

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