Tourism to the Sunshine State continues to thrive with Visit ******* preliminary estimates showing 23.7 million visitors went to ******* in the third quarter of 2014 (July-September), an increase of 3.5% over the same period in 2013. This represents the largest third quarter for visitation ******* has ever experienced, exceeding the previous high of 22.9 million in Q3 2013. Through the first three quarters of 2014, Visit ******* estimates that it has welcomed 73.9 million visitors – an increase of 2.5% over the same period last year. For quarter three, Visit ******* estimates that 2.9 million overseas visitors and 526,000 Canadians came to *******, both of which are record Q3 highs and represent 2.2% and 1.8% increases over Q3 2013 respectively.