{"id":267871,"date":"2025-11-17T13:41:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T13:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/267871\/"},"modified":"2025-11-17T13:41:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T13:41:07","slug":"the-open-studies-show-golf-tournament-brought-280m-economy-boost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/267871\/","title":{"rendered":"The Open: Studies show golf tournament brought \u00a3280m economy boost"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The return of The Open to Portrush in July attracted record breaking numbers, making it the biggest ever sporting event staged here.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The figures represent a significant increase on the economic impact generated from the the last time The Open was held at Royal Portrush in 2019. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">2025 figures are almost double those in 2019, and a growth of 67% in economic benefit for Causeway Coast and Glens.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The studies attributed this to an increase in attendance and spend by spectators, with more visitors staying in commercial accommodation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">More than half of attendees travelled to the Antrim coast from outside Northern Ireland, with almost 80% of those attending The Open for the first time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The return of The Open to Portrush in July attracted record breaking numbers, making it the biggest ever&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":267872,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[5904,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-267871","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-golf","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=267871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267871\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/267872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}