The bureau's latest statistics show volume in 2001 was five million business visitors, down 12.3% from 5.7 million in 2000.
The number of attendees at conventions or meetings held in hotels or at the four million-sf Orange County Convention Center is shrinking--651,954 at 586 meetings in the first half of this year versus 1.2 million at 697 meetings in the first six months of 2001.
At the same time, a total 450,000 sf of new or expanded meeting space has opened up at hotels in Orange, Osceola and Seminole counties since January of this year. Another 450,000 sf will surface by 2006 if hotel owners can get financing for the new construction.
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