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Originally Posted by Therealether
Nascar has Volusia County by the balls. Its literally the only thing here to draw anything more than flies, so the government rolls out the red Carpet for them. The started this whole Daytona Rising before Toyota was even a huge player in Nascar, then out it on hold when the economy crapped out.
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Since much of our immediate family lives in Daytona Beach (actually Port Orange) we've spent more time there by far than anywhere except home in the Midwest.
That being the case we've spent a lot of time in DB and Florida as a whole and have a pretty good understanding of what it has to offer. Overall, there is as much of a tourist draw to DB as anywhere on the east side of the state, and that would include Miami and the Space Coast. Much of the tourist draw has no real connection to DIS when the motorcycle events and the beach is factored in.
Naturally Orlando is the epicenter of the Florida tourist attractions and there is a fair amount of spill over to DB. As a matter of fact, when you factor in Biketoberfest and Bike Week and Turkey Trot the tourist draw is somewhat more diversified than even Orlando and several of those events do not include DIS as their hub. The huge difference, obviously, is Orlando's tourist draw is 365 days a year as opposed to just 3 or 4 weeks a year as is the case with DB.
One thing is for sure, DB is much more of a tourist destination than Indianapolis.