Cold weather no boon to S. Florida hotel trade

Even cold weather up north doesn’t outweigh wallet worries, say regional
hoteliers, who report lower booking rates at South Florida hotels as a result of the  recession. In October,
both Broward and Miami-Dade counties saw consecutive months of
declining hotel taxes for the first time since 2002. By contrast, the South Florida counties collected about 60 percent of the year’s $110 million hotel tax revenue in the first five
months of 2007.