The state's chief business recruiter peddles the presence of the governor as opening doors for Florida businesses during past international trade missions.

However, as Gov. Rick Scott's re-election effort moves deeper into campaign mode, the much-traveled governor isn't penciled in to join any foreign trade missions this year.

A Scott spokesman said decisions about upcoming trips "will be made at an appropriate time."

Meanwhile, a spokesman for the economic-development agency Enterprise Florida said that of the investment and trade development missions currently on the agency's schedule for the rest of this year, only one would fit the mold of the 10 trips Scott has led since taking office in 2011. That would be a return in July to the Farnborough International Airshow in southeast England.

As of now, Scott, who led a delegation of nearly 90 people to the air show two years ago, isn't on the passenger manifest, Enterprise Florida spokesman Sean Helton said in an email.

Florida Commerce Secretary Gray Swoope, who is also the president and chief executive officer of Enterprise Florida, highlighted the impact of Scott on trade missions during the agency's board of directors meeting Thursday at The Breakers hotel in Palm Beach.

"You've seen our boss, the chairman of this board, go in there, open the door from the leadership of the countries that we're in, to the business leadership, and introduce Florida products to that market, and it's been successful," Swoope said.

Enterprise Florida claims the Scott led-trips - to Panama, Canada, Brazil, Israel, Spain, the United Kingdom, Colombia, Chile, France and Japan - have resulted in sales topping $474 million for the companies that have participated in the missions.

Such numbers, however, remain suspect to some.

Dan Krassner, executive director of the nonpartisan group Integrity Florida, continues to push for better public accounting from Enterprise Florida, which has its expenses covered by private and public dollars.

"The public might be suspicious that deals are being prearranged for photo ops rather than put together by state officials," Krassner said. "If there was more transparency about how the public's money is being spent to increase trade, then the costs and benefits could be better understood."

In addition to Farnborough, Enterprise Florida plans to travel this year to the security-focused Cansec 2014 in Ottawa, Canada; China for a trade mission; Singapore and Malaysia for trade development; and the Electronica 2014 show in Munich, Germany.

Scott has taken more foreign trips than his predecessor Charlie Crist, then a Republican, did during four years in the governor's office.

The last trip Scott participated in was to Japan in November.

He was expected to be part of a trade delegation to the Dominican Republic, the state's ninth-largest trading partner, in February.

But he withdrew days before the event. Instead he attended the National Governors Association's winter meeting in Washington, D.C.

Meanwhile, Crist earlier this month floated the idea of visiting Cuba