When it comes to total number of hotel rooms, Orlando is second worldwide only to Las Vegas, with some reports putting the central Florida city's count well over 140,000. And those rooms are put to use: The city is a frequent destination for conventions (such as the AIA Conference on Architecture), and the tourism industry-led by the Disney and Universal theme parks, the nearby Kennedy Space Center, and more-continues to boom. Last October, however, Orlando's hotel rooms filled for another more dire reason: evacuation.
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