Visit Glades and VisitGlades.org was established by the Glades County Tourism Development Council to help promote tourism in Glades County, Florida.
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Because tourism development is economic development and because you can’t have successful tourism business development without having successful tourist development, the Glades County Economic Development Council, Inc. launched the tourism development initiative in 2008, campaigning for adoption of the tourism development tax or bed tax, which is a 2 percent fee collected by motels, RV parks etc. who serve visitors who stay there less than six months and a day.
The referendum was approved and as part of the process the Board of County Commissioners appointed members of a tourism development committee who devised the original tourism development plan. Members of that committee, the composition of which has changed over the years, then became the council. Members are formally appointed to the TDC by the BOCC.
The Glades County TDC is a Glades County BOCC appointed advisory group, and under the statute is comprised of nine members: one commissioner, representing the county; one city councilman, no more than four operators of accommodations (motels, RV parks or campgrounds) and the remainder must be Glades County residents (voters) who are engaged in tourism businesses or otherwise have an interest in tourism development in Glades County. The TDC oversees the way the bed tax, which is collected by the Department of Revenue and then distributed monthly to the county, is used to promote tourism in Glades County.
