{"id":515380,"date":"2026-03-03T06:09:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T06:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/515380\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T06:09:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T06:09:08","slug":"melbourne-hotel-no-shows-surge-as-f1-visitors-cant-get-flights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/515380\/","title":{"rendered":"Melbourne hotel no-shows surge as F1 visitors can\u2019t get flights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Melbourne hoteliers are feeling the pinch as tourists booked to attend this weekend\u2019s Formula 1 grand prix fail to show up while F1 teams scramble to reroute their flights through Asia.<\/p>\n<p>After the United States\u2019 strike on Iran prompted retaliatory missiles that hit at or close to major airports in Dubai, Abu Dhabi and Doha, F1 teams have been rushing to find <a href=\"https:\/\/www.afr.com\/link\/follow-20180101-p5o6lc\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">alternative routes into Australia<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Melbourne hoteliers are feeling the pinch as tourists booked to attend this weekend\u2019s Formula 1 grand prix fail&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":515381,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,806,805,803,804,85],"class_list":["post-515380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-motosport","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-motor","tag-motor-sports","tag-motosport","tag-motosports","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515380","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=515380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515380\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/515381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=515380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=515380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=515380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}