{"id":144789,"date":"2020-05-19T15:42:27","date_gmt":"2020-05-19T13:42:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2020\/05\/19\/extra-uk-bank-holiday-could-help-remedy-37bn-loss-to-tourism-mps-told\/"},"modified":"2020-05-19T15:42:27","modified_gmt":"2020-05-19T13:42:27","slug":"extra-uk-bank-holiday-could-help-remedy-37bn-loss-to-tourism-mps-told","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=144789","title":{"rendered":"Extra UK bank holiday could help remedy \u00a337bn loss to tourism, MPs told"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>VisitBritain chief says predicted slump excludes impact of coronavirus quarantines for travellersCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageThe UK tourism industry could lobby the government for an extra bank holiday in October, to extend the season, as it predicts the sector will take a \u00a337bn hit from Covid-19.Patricia Yates, the acting chief executive of the official tourist agency VisitBritain, believes there will be a \u00a315bn drop in income from visitors coming to Britain from overseas, combined with a \u00a322bn impact from lost domestic tourism. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/may\/19\/extra-uk-bank-holiday-could-help-remedy-37bn-coronavirus-loss-to-tourism-mps-told\" target=\"_blank\">Extra UK bank holiday could help remedy \u00a337bn loss to tourism, MPs told<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VisitBritain chief says predicted slump excludes impact of coronavirus quarantines for travellersCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageThe UK tourism industry could lobby the government for an extra bank holiday in October, to extend the season, as it predicts the sector will take a \u00a337bn hit from Covid-19.Patricia Yates, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-144789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=144789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144789\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=144789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=144789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=144789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}