{"id":14,"date":"2020-11-17T13:14:37","date_gmt":"2020-11-17T18:14:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gulfbeachnaturists.org\/?page_id=14"},"modified":"2020-12-02T13:10:44","modified_gmt":"2020-12-02T18:10:44","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.gulfbeachnaturists.org\/index.php\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Gulf Beach Naturists knows the value of \u201cNakationers\u201d to Florida\u2019s tourist economy!\u00a0 Whether visiting from around the world, from within the U.S., or traveling from one of Florida\u2019s many West Coast Naturist\/Clothing-optional Resorts to one of its 4 East Coast Naturist Beaches, Florida\u2019s Naturists generate over $7 billion dollars annually in Florida\u2019s economy.\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What Gulf Beach Naturists believes is missing from the equation is a Gulf Coast beach that has been legally set apart for the skinny-dippers among us!\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Using the successful model of Miami-Dade County\u2019s Haulover Beach and St. Lucie County\u2019s Blind Creek Beach, both on the Atlantic Coast, Gulf Beach Naturists\u2019 vision is to establish a legally set apart, safe, inclusive, family-oriented Naturist\/Clothing-optional beach on Florida\u2019s Gulf Coast nearer to the 10,000 Naturists of Pasco County.&nbsp; And, to the thousands more who visit and stay in one of Florida\u2019s 34 Naturist venues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2>As the saying goes, \u201cIf you build it, they will come!\u201d<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Naturist Tourist Economic Impact Miami-Dade County\/Haulover Naturist\/Clothing\/Optional Beach 2017<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table is-style-stripes\"><table><tbody><tr><td><\/td><td>Annual Naturists Tourist Visits&nbsp;<\/td><td>Per diem Benefit<\/td><td>Economic Impact Haulover<\/td><td>Tourists Average Night Stays<\/td><td>Economic Impact Annual<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Total Direct Revenue Impact (per person)<\/td><td>733,236<\/td><td>$270.62<\/td><td>$198,428,326<\/td><td>6.05&nbsp;<\/td><td><strong>$1,200,491,374<\/strong><\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Hotel Food &amp; Beverage Tax &#8211; 2%<\/td><td>733,236<\/td><td>$5.41<\/td><td><\/td><td>6.05<\/td><td><\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Tourist Development Tax &#8211; 2%<\/td><td>733,236<\/td><td>$5.41<\/td><td>$396,8567<\/td><td>6.05<\/td><td>$24,009,827<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Convention Development Tax &#8211; 3%<\/td><td>733,236<\/td><td>$8.12<\/td><td>$5,952,850<\/td><td>6.05<\/td><td>$36,014,741<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>State &amp; County Sales Tax &#8211; 7%<\/td><td>733,236<\/td><td>$18.94<\/td><td>$13,889,983<\/td><td>6.05<\/td><td>$84,034,396<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><tbody><tr><td>Jobs Created from Naturist Tourists<br><\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">80 tourists=1 job<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-right\" data-align=\"right\"><strong>9,165 <\/strong>jobs added to Florida\u2019s economy as a&nbsp;<br>result of \u201cNakationer\u201d spending<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right has-small-font-size\">Data Sources: Greater Miami Convention &amp; Visitors Bureau&#8217;s 2017 Annual Visitor Industry Overview Report<br>Florida Dept. of Economic Opportunity (included in GMCVB Visitor Industry Overview)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gulf Beach Naturists knows the value of \u201cNakationers\u201d to Florida\u2019s tourist economy!\u00a0 Whether visiting from around the world, from within the U.S., or traveling from one of Florida\u2019s many West Coast Naturist\/Clothing-optional Resorts to one of its 4 East Coast Naturist Beaches, Florida\u2019s Naturists generate over $7 billion dollars annually in Florida\u2019s economy.\u00a0 What Gulf Beach Naturists believes is missing from the equation is a Gulf Coast beach that has been legally set apart for the skinny-dippers among us!\u00a0 Using the successful model of Miami-Dade County\u2019s Haulover Beach and St. Lucie County\u2019s Blind Creek Beach, both on the Atlantic Coast,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gulfbeachnaturists.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gulfbeachnaturists.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gulfbeachnaturists.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gulfbeachnaturists.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gulfbeachnaturists.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.gulfbeachnaturists.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":149,"href":"https:\/\/www.gulfbeachnaturists.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14\/revisions\/149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gulfbeachnaturists.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}