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Orange County’s comptroller found all sorts of red flags in an audit of Visit Orlando, the tourism promotion agency that gets $105 million in public money and collects only ...
Some restricted funds went to provide its CEO a car allowance and buy another executive a refrigerator, the report says.
Visit Orlando owes more than $3.5 million dollars to Orange County’s Tourist Development Tax fund, according to an audit ...
Orange County officials are auditing Visit Orlando, the region’s tourism board, after raising concerns about the group’s use ...
That’s just one example of questionable spending flagged in a new audit report from the Orange County Comptroller’s Office.
Visit Orlando paid CEO Casandra Matej’s $12,210 car allowance from the hotel tax money, just one example of inappropriate ...
Comptroller Phil Diamond said the biggest concern was the misclassification of at least $3.5 million of tax money as private ...
Orange County audit reveals concerns over Visit Orlando's use of tourism tax funds. Here's what the audit had to say.
Comptroller Diamond says this isn’t the first time the county has informed Visit Orlando of recording public funds as private. The county found it in its last audit in 2019.
Diamond was asked by county commissioners during a budget debate in January to audit Visit Orlando, which receives 30 cents of every dollar generated by Orange County’s 6% surcharge on the cost of a ...
ORLANDO, Fla. — Visit Orlando, Central Florida’s Chief Marketing Agency, which has received hundreds of millions of dollars collected from tourists on hotel stays, is facing an audit.