Claire Donovan

Claire Donovan is Orlando Citizen’s tourist-economy reporter.

Claire covers the visitor economy from the resident side: the jobs, taxes, traffic and wages behind the headline visitor numbers. She reports from official sources — the Greater Orlando Aviation Authority, the Orange County Comptroller’s tourist-tax reporting, Visit Orlando, the Orange County Convention Center and the parks companies’ own newsrooms — and checks every figure she prints against the document it came from.

Her beat is introduced on the Tourist News hub. Latest from Claire: the Tourist News archive.