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Pinellas County bed-tax collections hold above $8 million in January as hotel inventory returns
Summary
County tourism staff reported that transient bed-tax (TDT) collections exceeded $8 million in January, vacation-rental collections are recovering, and roughly 1,400 hotel rooms are slated to reopen this year; staff flagged continuing recovery since fall storms.
Eddie (market intelligence lead) reported to the Pinellas County Tourist Development Council on March 19 that TDT collections for January exceeded $8 million — the third consecutive January above that mark — and that hotel and vacation‑rental demand are continuing to recover following fall storms.
"For the third year in a row, we had TDT collections over 8,000,000 in January," Eddie said, calling it a record year though only modestly above 2023…
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