{"id":85977,"date":"2019-03-27T01:00:37","date_gmt":"2019-03-27T00:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2019\/03\/27\/visitor-numbers-at-uk-attractions-rise-9-despite-fewer-overseas-tourists\/"},"modified":"2019-03-27T01:00:37","modified_gmt":"2019-03-27T00:00:37","slug":"visitor-numbers-at-uk-attractions-rise-9-despite-fewer-overseas-tourists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=85977","title":{"rendered":"Visitor numbers at UK attractions rise 9% despite fewer overseas tourists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tate Modern becomes nation\u2019s top attraction as experts say Britons are fuelling growthVisitor numbers at Britain\u2019s museums, galleries, zoos, castles and country houses increased by nearly 9% last year despite a decrease in numbers of overseas tourists.Figures published on Wednesday show striking rises across the UK helped by stories as diverse as Dippy the \u201c150m-year-old dinosaur\u201d, a regiment of 2,200-year-old terracotta warriors and a one-year-old polar bear called Hamish. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/culture\/2019\/mar\/27\/visitor-numbers-at-uk-attractions-rise-9-per-cent-despite-tourism-slump\" target=\"_blank\">Visitor numbers at UK attractions rise 9% despite fewer overseas tourists<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tate Modern becomes nation\u2019s top attraction as experts say Britons are fuelling growthVisitor numbers at Britain\u2019s museums, galleries, zoos, castles and country houses increased by nearly 9% last year despite a decrease in numbers of overseas tourists.Figures published on Wednesday show striking rises across the UK helped by stories as [&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-85977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85977","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=85977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85977\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=85977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=85977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=85977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}