{"id":86010,"date":"2017-01-20T00:26:25","date_gmt":"2017-01-20T05:26:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=86010"},"modified":"2017-01-29T03:27:02","modified_gmt":"2017-01-29T08:27:02","slug":"post-referendum-boom-time-for-overseas-tourism-to-britain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/01\/20\/post-referendum-boom-time-for-overseas-tourism-to-britain\/","title":{"rendered":"Post-referendum boom time for overseas tourism to Britain"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_86011\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-86011\" style=\"width: 2048px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/14659808052_ac4b176443_k.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-86011\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/14659808052_ac4b176443_k.jpg\" alt=\"The number of overseas visitors heading to Britain (Pictured) increased in the three months immediately following the Brexit referendum, figures revealed Thursday. (Photo: b.donaghey\/ flcikr)\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1536\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/14659808052_ac4b176443_k.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/14659808052_ac4b176443_k-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/14659808052_ac4b176443_k-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/14659808052_ac4b176443_k-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2048px) 100vw, 2048px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-86011\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The number of overseas visitors heading to Britain (Pictured) increased in the three months immediately following the Brexit referendum, figures revealed Thursday. (Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/barrydon\">b.donaghey\/ flickr<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>LONDON \u2013The number of overseas visitors heading to Britain increased in the three months immediately following the Brexit referendum, figures revealed Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The Office for National Statistics (ONS) said in a report that visitor numbers in the quarter of 2016 starting July 1 was 1.5 percent higher than the corresponding three months in 2015.<\/p>\n<p>The ONS study also showed that overseas visitors spent 7.4 billion pounds (9.12 billion U.S. dollars) during the post-referendum quarter, up 3 percent on the same period a year earlier.<\/p>\n<p>The report also showed that visits abroad by British residents during the third quarter of 2016 (July-September) increased by 7.4 percent to 24.1 million compared with the same quarter in 2015.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON \u2013The number of overseas visitors heading to Britain increased in the three months immediately following the Brexit referendum, figures &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":86011,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79,17],"tags":[11318,918,13990],"class_list":["post-86010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-travel","category-news-w","tag-brexit","tag-britain","tag-overseas-visitors","mauthors-xinhua-news-agency-via-philippines-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86010\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}