Visit Lauderdale: ‘Meeting planners aren’t even sending RFPs to Florida’
Broward County’s official tourism arm has created an accessibility tourism web page to help multicultural, LGBTQ+, seniors and visitors with special needs plan their trip to Florida.
Visit Lauderdale was motivated to launch the “Everyone Under the Sun” campaign listing hotels, attractions, theaters, beaches, and transportation providers that largely exceed travel industry standards after business declined allegedly due to the Florida legislature approving the ‘Don’t Say Gay’ law.
“There’s been a loss of business we’ve received from events that have traditionally come to Greater Fort Lauderdale on an annual basis for years,” said Stacy Ritter, Visit Lauderdale president and CEO. “It’s also extremely concerning that event and meeting planners aren’t even sending RFPs to Florida, making it impossible to quantify what we actually lost as we don’t even have the opportunity to bid on some business.”