{"id":23566,"date":"2017-08-18T13:48:47","date_gmt":"2017-08-18T12:48:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/?p=23566"},"modified":"2017-08-18T13:51:42","modified_gmt":"2017-08-18T12:51:42","slug":"visits-uk-rise-pound-falls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2017\/08\/18\/visits-uk-rise-pound-falls\/","title":{"rendered":"Visits To UK Rise As Pound Falls"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Official figures show that the number of visitors to the United Kingdom rose 3.5million in June, up 7% from the same month last year.<\/h2>\n<p>The number of visitors from Europe was 2.241 million, an increase of 2%, but the figures showed a dramatic increase in North American visitors, up 34%.<\/p>\n<p>The Office for National Statistics (ONS) said that the visitors spent \u00a32.2billion whilst here, a rise of 2%.<\/p>\n<p>The figures show how the United Kingdom has become more affordable to visitors, with the recent fall in the pound following Brexit.<\/p>\n<p>UK citizens themselves made 7.2million trips abroad, an increase of 4%, and spent a massive \u00a34.6billion, up 15% and doubling the amount spent by foreigners in the United Kingdom.<\/p>\n<p>Patricia Yates, VistiBritain Director, said,\u00a0&#8220;Tourism is one of Britain&#8217;s most valuable export industries and this continued growth demonstrates the industry&#8217;s increasing importance as a key driver of economic growth across our nations and regions.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Official figures show that the number of visitors to the United Kingdom rose 3.5million in June, up 7% from the same month last year. The number of visitors from Europe was 2.241 million, an increase of 2%, but the figures showed a dramatic increase in North American visitors, up 34%. The Office for National Statistics [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":101,"featured_media":23567,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,112],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business-news","category-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/101"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23566\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}