"I’m so glad our projections were wrong."
-- Visit St. Petersburg/Clearwater CEO Steve Hayes
Tourist tax dollars are starting to rebound in Hillsborough and Pinellas Counties, but both locations remain significantly down from the same time last year.
Tourism taxes collected by Pinellas County were down about 24 percent in June compared to the same month a year ago. Tourism officials, however, said they had braced for worse.
Read more at the Tampa Bay Times