Orange County Convention Center Gaining Thousands of Visitors

While the COVID-19 pandemic discourages much smaller gatherings almost everywhere, the Orange County Convention Center is gearing back up, with several multi-thousand person events just last weekend.

Orange County Mayor Jerry Demings andConvention Center Executive Director Mark Tester announced the recent buoyed business Monday as news that counters some bad economic news from Orange County Comptroller Phil Diamond about January’s tourist development tax receipts.

Orange County’s January tourist development tax revenue fell sharply from December, the first monthly decline seen since the whole tourism business collapsed almost to zero last April. That January sag, Diamond said, was due in part to the fact that December and January saw a deadly surge in COVID-19 nationally, in Florida, and in Orange County.