Category: Business

Florida’s tourism-marketing arm is looking to make staff cuts and put more of an emphasis on digital media instead of television, as it responds to a 34 percent reduction in state funding.

As most Historic City News readers know, I thoroughly enjoy sharing my Gullah Geechee history.  Our “Gullah Geechee Corridor and the East Coast Greenway” film, from Hankerson-Henry Productions, tells that story; connecting tourism, cultural heritage, and cycling back to travel and tourism in St. Johns County through Rails to Trails, the Sea Island Loop, and…

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Historic City News editor Michael Gold knows all too well about various social media outlets censoring conservative views under the pretext of halting false “right-wing” opinions and “extremist” views.

The Florida Bar, the state’s guardian for the integrity of the legal profession, announced to local Historic City News reporters that the Florida Supreme Court recently disciplined 19 attorneys – disbarring one, revoking the licenses of three, suspending 13 and publicly reprimanding two.  One attorney also had to pay restitution, and two others were also…

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Isabelle Renault, President and CEOSt. Johns County Chamber of Commerce Dear Historic City News editor: The St. Johns County Chamber of Commerce is celebrating National Small Business Week from May 5 until May 11 and will be recognizing the many significant contributions that small business owners and their employees make in our community.  Please join…

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by Scott PowersSpecial to HISTORIC CITY NEWS Vacation rental home platform Airbnb is driving down the lodging prices and revenues for traditional hotels, a new national study led by a Florida State University professor finds.

Legislative efforts to pre-empt local regulations statewide of vacation rental homes may have died again this year on Wednesday as the Senate bill seeking to do so was temporarily postponed in a committee that is not scheduled to meet again.

The Northeast Florida Regional Airport’s total statewide economic impact is estimated to exceed $1.4 billion. That figure was determined by a recently released 2019 update to the Florida Statewide Aviation Economic Impact Study received by Historic City News today.