{"id":465856,"date":"2026-02-10T13:14:17","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T13:14:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/465856\/"},"modified":"2026-02-10T13:14:17","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T13:14:17","slug":"canada-summer-games-result-in-180m-boost-to-st-johns-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/465856\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada Summer Games Result in $180M Boost to St. John\u2019s Economy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/fortis-canada-games-complex-stock.jpg\" class=\"header-image\" alt=\"Canada Summer Games Result in $180M Boost to St. John's Economy\"\/>\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>The 2025 Canada Summer Games generated over $272-million in economic activity across the country, $180-million of which was in the City of St. John\u2019s. <\/p>\n<p>The<a href=\"https:\/\/www.stjohns.ca\/en\/recreation-culture\/resources\/Documents\/Recreation-Documents\/Economic-Impact-Report---2025-Canada-Summer-Games.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> Economic Impact Assessment of the games <\/a>was released by Sport Tourism Canada. <\/p>\n<p>According to the report, over $40-million was spent by visitors in the province, including $15.4-million in accommodations, $8.3-million in restaurant and food services, and nearly $4-million in retail shopping. <\/p>\n<p>As well, 642 local jobs were supported \u2013 including $56.8-million in wages and salaries. <\/p>\n<p>There were over 31,800 visitors to St. John\u2019s because of the games, and nearly 93 per cent indicated they are likely to return.<\/p>\n<p>In total, the games are said to have produced $137.5-million in GDP for the Canadian economy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; The 2025 Canada Summer Games generated over $272-million in economic activity across the country, $180-million of which&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":95940,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[45,49,48,46],"class_list":["post-465856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=465856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465856\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/95940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=465856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=465856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=465856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}