Florida has set a tourism record for a single quarter. Tourism marketer VISIT FLORIDA is reporting more than 28 million visitors arrived between January and March in 2015. WJCT went to the Florida Welcome Center on Interstate 95 to see what was drawing them in. When asked why he was visiting Florida, Wayne Phillips, from Shenandoah Valley in Virginia, said he loved Florida. He said he was going to spend his vacation at Ormond Beach. Susan Greene, from Luberton, North Carolina, says she visits Florida about four times a year. She said on this trip she and her mother were heading to Daytona to see her aunt. Norma Gonzalez, a Florida resident since 1990, says she was taking her cousin who was visiting from Puerto Rico to see the Magic Kingdom at Disney World. Laura Gayle Claxton has been the Information Specialist at the Interstate 95 Welcome Center for the past 20 years. She says the most common question she gets is ‘How far is it to Disney?’ Transcript PETER HADEN, Reporter: May I ask
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