{"id":252952,"date":"2025-07-10T08:04:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-10T08:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/252952\/"},"modified":"2025-07-10T08:04:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-10T08:04:11","slug":"north-yorkshire-visitor-numbers-up-as-4bn-tourism-economy-grows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/252952\/","title":{"rendered":"North Yorkshire visitor numbers up as \u00a34bn tourism economy grows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Among the locations to see a boost in visitor numbers was Castle Howard, which recorded a 10% increase during summer 2024 thanks, in part, to a series of events including a sculpture exhibition, the council said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The stately home&#8217;s visitor attraction director, Abbi Ollive, said: &#8220;Castle Howard had a record-breaking year in 2024, with visitor numbers exceeding pre-pandemic levels for the first time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We are delighted to have seen this growth last year and to be working on programmes of events that bring people to this destination and that contribute to the local economy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A destination management plan was launched last October and is the first ever overarching strategy for tourism in the county.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The plan is being developed by Visit North Yorkshire, a destination management and marketing organisation that is overseen by North Yorkshire Council.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The council&#8217;s head of tourism Tony Watson said: &#8220;A great deal of work has already been done by the team to reach the targets set out in the destination management plan. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We are committed to driving forward the visitor economy, as it is so important to North Yorkshire.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Among the locations to see a boost in visitor numbers was Castle Howard, which recorded a 10% increase&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":252953,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3090],"tags":[51,1700,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-252952","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-economy","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114827904115665221","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=252952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252952\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/252953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}