{"id":236,"date":"2023-05-25T06:37:57","date_gmt":"2023-05-25T05:37:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jacksonvilleaquarium.org\/?page_id=236"},"modified":"2025-04-30T18:16:42","modified_gmt":"2025-04-30T17:16:42","slug":"overall-impact-of-an-aquarium-in-jacksonville-florida","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jacksonvilleaquarium.org\/index.php\/overall-impact-of-an-aquarium-in-jacksonville-florida\/","title":{"rendered":"Overall impact of an aquarium in Jacksonville Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\">Attracting over 250,000 Visitors<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">The Jacksonville Aquarium has the potential of impacting 250,000 visitors through education. By calculating from other aquariums in Florida and in similar sized city&#8217;s on the east coast and scaling for our square footage and total gallons we found that 250,000 visitors is a conservative estimate to the guest that the aquarium would welcome. Approximately 49% of those visitors would be K-12 students. This provides the aquarium a unique opportunity to reach children and students to teach about conservation and the marine world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Estimates put 35% of visitors being tourist from outside of Jacksonville. This would have a impact of $11,844,000 to the Jacksonville economy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">One goal of the Jacksonville Aquarium is to become Jacksonville&#8217;s second AZA accredited facility. AZA (Association of Zoos and Aquariums) ensures accredited facilities meet higher standards of animal care than required by law. It is also seen as a gold standard for facilities. This would make Jacksonville one of 17 cities (<em>As of 5\/25\/23<\/em>) with an accredited zoo and aquarium. The current are as follows:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li><strong><em>San Francisco<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong><em><strong>San Diego<\/strong><\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong><em>Denver<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong><em>Tampa<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong><em>Orlando<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong><em><strong>Atlanta<\/strong><\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong><em>Chicago<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong><strong><em>New Orleans<\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong><em><strong>Baltimore<\/strong><\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong><em>Boston<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong><strong><em>Kansas City<\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong><em>New York<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong><strong><em>Chattanooga<\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong><strong><em>Dallas<\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong><strong><em>Houston<\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong><em><strong>San Antonio<\/strong><\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong><strong><em>Seattle<\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">All of which are major travel hubs and destinations. Adding a second AZA facility to Jacksonville will help build the city as a more concrete travel hub for travelers nationally and internationally.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\">Projected numbers<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>Attendance projections of 200,000-250,000 visitors annually<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Revenue of $6,500,000 per fiscal year<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Operating budget of $6,000,000<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>$300,000 going directly to conservation work in Florida<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Creation of 75 jobs and total of $3,500,000 in wages<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>$11,844,000 of new income to the Jacksonville area through tourism<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\">Goals Impacting Jacksonville<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Goal: Open a state of the art aquarium in Jacksonville<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>Bring awareness to the public to help them understand the natural habitats around them and across the world<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Increase conservation of our natural waterways throughout the St. Johns Water Management District<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Become Jacksonville&#8217;s second AZA accredited facility<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Bring in tourist to the city and grow it as a travel destination<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Become a premier part of educating and research in Jacksonville<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Use interactive exhibits to foster a love for the ocean<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Attracting over 250,000 Visitors The Jacksonville Aquarium has the potential of impacting 250,000 visitors through education. By calculating from other aquariums in Florida and in similar sized city&#8217;s on the east coast and scaling for our square footage and total gallons we found that 250,000 visitors is a conservative estimate to the guest that the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jacksonvilleaquarium.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/236"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jacksonvilleaquarium.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jacksonvilleaquarium.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jacksonvilleaquarium.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jacksonvilleaquarium.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/jacksonvilleaquarium.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/236\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":319,"href":"https:\/\/jacksonvilleaquarium.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/236\/revisions\/319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jacksonvilleaquarium.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}