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Visit Florida CEO addresses removal of LGBTQ pages on tourism website
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The head of the state-funded tourism agency spoke for the first time about a controversial decision to remove a webpage on LGBTQ travel from the Visit Florida website. Visit Florida President and CEO Dana Young was in Tampa for a tourism conference.
“Visit Florida is a taxpayer-funded organization,” Young said to the Visit Florida Board of Directors. “And as such, Visit Florida, our marketing strategy and our materials, our content must align with the state. Florida has always been and will continue to be a very, very welcoming state."
Read more: https://www.wtsp.com/article/travel/visit-florida-ceo-lgbtq-pages-response/67-b5f98aa3-dc5b-4045-bb35-a8e72731e6f2