{"id":286061,"date":"2025-11-27T11:54:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T11:54:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/286061\/"},"modified":"2025-11-27T11:54:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T11:54:07","slug":"tour-o-the-borders-played-vital-role-in-bringing-visitors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/286061\/","title":{"rendered":"Tour O The Borders played &#8216;vital role&#8217; in bringing visitors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The return of an annual biking event contributed more than \u00a3750,000 to the Borders economy, according to an independent assessment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Tour O The Borders started in 2014 but was cancelled last year amid concerns about road closures.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It returned in September this year &#8211; starting and finishing in Peebles &#8211; and more than 2,000 people took part.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Scott Hamilton, executive member for economic growth on Scottish Borders Council, said events like the tour played a &#8220;vital role&#8221; in bringing visitors to the area and boosting the economy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The return of an annual biking event contributed more than \u00a3750,000 to the Borders economy, according to an&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":286062,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-286061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-cycling","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286061","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=286061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286061\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/286062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=286061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=286061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}