{"id":52781,"date":"2015-01-22T12:00:16","date_gmt":"2015-01-22T12:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=57ecacc0ac06313942033803f5324c18"},"modified":"2015-01-22T12:00:16","modified_gmt":"2015-01-22T12:00:16","slug":"news-story-record-spending-from-overseas-tourists-in-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=52781","title":{"rendered":"News story: Record spending from overseas tourists in 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>New analysis from VisitBritain reveals that more international tourists are travelling across the country than ever before, with spending hitting new record levels in the majority of nations and regions for the first 9 months of 2014.<\/p>\n<p>The new figures from the Office for National Statistics show that the first 9 months of 2014 overseas tourist spending reached new records in Wales (\u00a3303 million), Scotland (\u00a31.5 billion), London (\u00a38.9 billion), East of England (\u00a3693 million), North West (\u00a3849 million) and the South East (\u00a31.7 billion).<\/p>\n<p>Compared to the same period in 2013, from January to September 2014 overseas visits grew at a faster rate to Wales (14%), Scotland (12%) and Yorkshire (12%, reaching a new record of 1.08 million) than they did to London (6%). <\/p>\n<p>Read the <a rel=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.visitbritain.org\/mediaroom\/pressreleases\/regionalspending2014.aspx\">full news story from VisitBritain<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Welcoming the figures, Tourism Minister Helen Grant said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"last-child\">Britain has so much to offer tourists and it\u2019s fantastic that more of them are exploring the country and helping to drive growth outside of London. I want overseas visitors to experience the very best of Britain and with a record \u00a322 billion expected to be spent this year the tourism sector is well placed to keep up this momentum, as part of the Government\u2019s long-term economic plan.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Patricia Yates, VisitBritain\u2019s Director of Strategy and Communications, said: <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"last-child\">Inbound tourism is an export industry at which Britain is demonstrably successful, with further growth predicted this year. VisitBritain will continue to focus on the rebalancing of this growing industry in 2015 to benefit the whole country. Next week we will launch a \u00a33 million Countryside is GREAT campaign to showcase the beauty of our countryside \u2013 from Cornwall to the Lake District, Pembrokeshire to the Scottish Highlands.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Helen Grant welcomes VisitBritain&#8217;s latest analysis of ONS figures<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52781"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52781\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}