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Sarasota News Leader December 27, 2013 Page 31 Having Easter in April instead of March — as TDT revenue during October this year than it was this year, she points out — "[is] going in October 2012. (Those are the latest figures to give us a much longer season." available.) And, as Virginia Haley, president of Visit Sarasota County, has pointed out, the She is just keeping her fingers crossed, she 2013 fiscal year was a record-breaker in TDT adds, that a cold snap will not hit, as it did in revenue collections. the early part of this year, and make some of those tourists change their minds about head- During a presentation prepared last month ing to Florida. for the Sarasota County Tourist Development Council (TDC), Haley and her staff provided "I think it'll be a very strong season for several statistics to show how tourism conSarasota," Seidensticker says. tinues to boom in the county. Among them The comments voiced by Seidensticker, were the following: Brown, Lewis and Bankemper are supported • The total number of visitors rose to 929,000 for by the first report on Tourist Development Tax the 2013 fiscal year, up 5.7 percent over 2012. (TDT) revenue for the fiscal year that began Oct. 1. According to the numbers released by • The total for European tourists in FY 2013 the Sarasota County Tax Collector's Office, was 103,000, up 10 percent over the FY the county brought in $45,029.27 more in 2012 mark. A county map shows all the active site and development projects in South County as of this month. Image courtesy Sarasota County