{"id":198611,"date":"2025-10-08T20:26:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T20:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/198611\/"},"modified":"2025-10-08T20:26:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T20:26:07","slug":"mlb-playoffs-nfl-season-opener-boost-philadelphia-airport-business-in-september","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/198611\/","title":{"rendered":"MLB playoffs, NFL season opener boost Philadelphia airport business in September"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-sports-and-society \">Business travel booked to Philadelphia International Airport during the month of September was up 19% compared to the same period last year, according to FCM and Corporate Traveler USA. It represents the largest year-over-year increase of the 12 cities in this year\u2019s MLB playoff field. FCM and Corporate Traveler are the business travel divisions of Flight Centre Travel Group, one of the world\u2019s largest booking companies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-sports-and-society \">The Philadelphia market\u2019s tourism business also received a boost when the reigning Super Bowl champion Eagles hosted the Cowboys on Sept. 4 for the first game of the 2025-26 NFL season and two weeks later, the Rams came to town.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-sports-and-society \">SBJ recently ranked Philadelphia as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2025\/05\/26\/best-sports-business-cities-soccer-no-7-philadelphia\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2025\/05\/26\/best-sports-business-cities-soccer-no-7-philadelphia\/\">one of the best cities in the country to conduct soccer business<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Business travel booked to Philadelphia International Airport during the month of September was up 19% compared to the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":198612,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,18597,591,5137,85],"class_list":["post-198611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-eagles","tag-mlb","tag-phillies","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198611\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/198612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}