Cocoa Beach

Hotels, restaurants, retailers, attractions all getting boost from spring visitors to Brevard County.

We are cautiously optimistic," Stewart, the marketing director, said in a presentation this month to the Brevard County Tourist Development Council's Marketing Committee. She said she preferred the "retro" resort to a vacation rental because it was cheaper: She is staying from Feb. It was just very, very busy with all the tourists and stuff,” Williams said of Cocoa Beach. Also, the zoo had one of its best daily attendance figures ― more than 4,000 ― on a recent Tuesday, typically a relatively slow day at the zoo. Butch and Debi Stearns of Davison, Michigan, booked an Airbnb room on the beach end of Minutemen Causeway to bookend their eight-night Caribbean cruise aboard Carnival Magic from Port Canaveral. Of note: The Cocoa Beach Air Show, featuring the U.S. The Space Coast Office of Tourism is spending $1.6 million on its spring marketing campaign, which is running on a range of digital, social and traditional media platforms from Jan. In a news release, airport officials attributed the spring-break traffic increase in part to service by low-cost carriers Lynx, Breeze, Avelo, Southwest and Spirit Airlines. A key message of the campaign is Brevard County's uniqueness. For us, it's been all good," even with increased competition from new hotels opening, plus the proliferation of vacation-rental properties in Cocoa Beach and other areas of the Space Coast. And I knew what the future was going to bring," Levy said. "In the past, Cocoa Beach was dead.