Tourism leaders meet with Pence and DeSantis

Florida tourism leaders called for a quicker reopening and more government help in a roundtable with Vice President Mike Pence and Gov. Ron DeSantis in Orlando on Wednesday, with SeaWorld’s CEO saying the park might reopen as soon as June.

At the same time, DeSantis urged theme park companies to open up their water parks.

The meeting came as Universal Orlando said it would be the first major theme park to present reopening plans Thursday to Orange County Mayor Jerry Demings’ Economic Recovery Task Force, paving the way for that resort to reopen.

Marc Swanson, interim CEO of SeaWorld, was the only theme park representative to give any kind of estimate as to when the parks could