{"id":251663,"date":"2026-01-25T23:01:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-25T23:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/251663\/"},"modified":"2026-01-25T23:01:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T23:01:09","slug":"raglan-to-host-world-surf-league-tour-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/251663\/","title":{"rendered":"Raglan to host World Surf League Tour event"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"AaByrilogD\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cThis is an incredible opportunity for surfing in New Zealand. Fans will be able to watch the world\u2019s most talented surfers get barrelled and compete, inspiring our budding young athletes and helping grow the sport in New Zealand.<\/p>\n<p class=\"AaByrilogD\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cThe New Zealand Pro will also give a major tourism boost to the Waikato, with a lineup of competitors and spectators to the region and a global broadcast of the event, showcasing Raglan as a top surf destination internationally.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"AaByrilogD\" style=\"display:none\">The WSL Championship Tour is the fourth event announced from the  package, which includes a Linkin Park concert at Auckland\u2019s Spark Arena, the Ultra Music Festival in Wellington and the Fifa World Series also in Auckland.<\/p>\n<p class=\"AaByrilogD\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cMajor events like these give a huge economic boost to our cities and towns &#8211; supporting hospitality and tourism businesses, creating more jobs and growing our economy and building for the future,\u201d Upston said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"AaByrilogD\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cWe\u2019re not just hosting events; we\u2019re building a reputation internationally as a world-class destination for culture, sport and entertainment.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cThis is an incredible opportunity for surfing in New Zealand. Fans will be able to watch the world\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":251664,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[6757,18239,8231,3232,12022,14731,111,139,69,8693,58423,84484,213,1324,18694,61,208,102,377,2557,80],"class_list":["post-251663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-bringing","tag-championship","tag-event","tag-fourth","tag-host","tag-league","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-raglan","tag-selected","tag-shores","tag-sports","tag-stop","tag-surf","tag-to","tag-tour","tag-with","tag-world","tag-wsl","tag-zealand"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=251663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251663\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/251664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}