Greater Miami and Miami Beach closed 2025 with 28.3 million visitors and a $32.2 billion economic impact — a new milestone — even as the airport’s first traffic dip in eight years warned that the easy growth is over.
('The GMCVB’s 2025 scorecard is a milestone year: 28.3 million visitors, $32.2 billion in economic impact, a Michelin-starred restaurant class collecting plaques, and hotel performance that led Florida. The prior year set the base: 28 million visitors, $22 billion in direct spending, $2.2 billion in tax revenue.', 'The softening is real but specific. MIA’s international count dipped 1.2% — Canadians down 7% on politics and prices, Colombians down 5% — and Miami Beach hotels called 2025 difficult even as the county kept the #1 RevPAR ranking among America’s top-25 markets.')
('The destination’s response is a year of events: the World Cup alone is expected to push 800,000 extra passengers through MIA, the winter holidays already ran ahead of 2025, and the convention pipeline — anchored by the coming 800-room Grand Hyatt at the Convention Center — keeps booking forward.', 'Latin America remains the structural engine: Colombia, Brazil and the U.K. grew 8–12% in the last full year of gains. Miami’s arrivals story is no longer recovery — it is rotation, from Canadian snowbirds to South American and domestic premium demand.')
Miami’s 2025 reads like a champion’s off-season: the numbers still records, the margins thinner, the rivals louder. That is exactly when to go. Rates soften before the World Cup hardens them; the new hotels open hungry; and the city that prices like a boom town briefly remembers how to say thank you.
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