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Vice President Mike Pence to visit Orlando nursing home, also talk tourism

Updated  May 17, 2020 10:23am EDT
Coronavirus Florida
Associated Press

Vice President to visit Orlando on Wednesday

Vice President Pence will visit a nursing home and talk about tourism.

ORLANDO, Fla. - Vice President Mike Pence is scheduled to visit a nursing home in Orlando and deliver personal protective equipment on Wednesday.

In a news release sent out Saturday, his office said that the nursing home visit is part of an initiative to deliver PPE to more than 15,000 nursing homes across America.

Afterward, Pence is scheduled to participate in a discussion with hospitality and tourism leaders to talk about plans for reopening.

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Tourism is Florida’s No. 1 industry, and it’s crashed during the coronavirus pandemic, with hotels, theme parks and other vacation-based businesses seeing massive drops in revenue because of closures. According to Dana Young, head of Visit Florida, hotels saw a drop in revenue of $1.6 billion during a six-week period in March and April compared to last year.

Domestic air travel to the state is down 65 percent and international air travel is down 80 percent compared to last year, Young said.