What are the most popular destinations in Florida? Beaches? Theme Parks? Hotel? City? Islands? Resort? Or is it a combination of Florida destinations?

As you can see, finding where to go in Florida can be confusing, complicated, and expensive if you don’t know how, when or where to go in Florida.

Florida Travel Blog has over 160 ideas about travel to beaches, cities, attractions, hotels and resorts. We will keep adding the most popular Florida destinations as we travel throughout Florida.

If you are preparing to travel Florida, you are most likely a tourist, resident or business person. Each traveler will have different goals, needs and thoughts about his or her destination and how to get there.

Tourist Destinations

Visitors to Florida are vacationing or curiously wandering the state looking for the best Florida destinations for whatever their goal or interest may be.

Each traveler has different goals or needs when figuring out where to go in Florida. Goals include:

• Theme Parks
• Beaches
• Major Cities
• Historical Sites
• Resorts

These and other goals require some research and planning. 

Tourists and travelers also may have some needs and requirements like:

• Family Considerations
• Health Requirements
• Time Allotments
• Limited Transportation

Combine the goals with the needs and you have to plan to get the best combination. That is where Florida Travel Blog comes in.

Business Travel

Business people have a different set of goals and needs. A person traveling for business often looks for expediency, cost-effectiveness, few diversions and quickly accomplishing their tasks.

In many cases, planning a trip is a necessity to assure accomplishing the goals of a business trip. Business people want hotels and restaurants that are clean, close and reasonable.

The Wandering Resident

Of all the travelers, residents are the most difficult to satisfy when deciding where to go in Florida. Generally, the most popular Florida destinations are not what these nomads are contemplating because they have already been there!

Residents are looking for road trips in Florida and short day trips in Florida. These Florida destinations must be unique and have the amenities the visitor wants.

We find that residents are more likely to;

• Visit historical destinations.
• Find new places.
• Visit smaller towns.
• Head to north Florida in summer months.

Some residents are very discernable when it comes to the flashy ads and promotions often used by Florida resorts and attractions.

So, What are the Most Popular Florida Destinations

If nothing else, we hope we have explained that answering the question of where to go in Florida can be complex. The factors outlined above change the definition of “most popular”. Most popular to whom?

If you look only at numbers, we could say the most popular Florida destinations are the busiest airports:

• Miami
• Orlando
• Ft. Lauderdale
• Tampa
• Fort Myers

Those numbers don’t tell the whole story. For example, no one disputes that Disney World is most visited attraction in Florida. Is Orlando, the city, the destination, or is Disney World, the attraction? 

On the other hand, the little island of Key West only gets a tenth of the airline traffic as Miami, but those visitors are visiting a (2-mile by 4-mile) 8 square-mile island. Miami has 1,279 square miles in the metropolitan area.

If you do the numbers, there are a lot of people visiting Key West’s little patch of land!

To further complicate the discussion of the most popular Florida destinations is the fact that Universal Studios, with 20,000 visitors a day, gets more visitors than one of the most popular beaches in Florida named Siesta Key Beach. So which is more popular if you are a beachgoer?

Florida also has undefined destinations that you have to consider in the most popular Florida destinations discussion. For instance, the Florida Everglades cannot be considered a singular attraction.

With millions of acres and dozens of parks, visitors flock to this ecological wonder. Alligator Alley alone has 22,500 vehicles crossing the Everglades daily.

Only a subjective evaluation of who the traveler is and what their goals and needs are will determine where to go in Florida and what is most popular.