{"id":496308,"date":"2026-03-26T11:37:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T11:37:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/496308\/"},"modified":"2026-03-26T11:37:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T11:37:12","slug":"shropshires-visitor-economy-tops-1bn-for-first-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/496308\/","title":{"rendered":"Shropshire&#8217;s visitor economy tops \u00a31bn for first time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Shropshire&#8217;s tourism sector has passed the \u00a31bn milestone for the first time, according to new figures.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The latest Scarborough Tourism Economic Activity Monitor report estimates the county&#8217;s visitor economy generated \u00a31.002bn in 2025, a 10.1% rise on 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Visitor numbers also grew to 10.66 million, with the sector supporting 9,454 jobs across the Shropshire Council area.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mark Hooper, project lead for Visit Shropshire, said the milestone was &#8220;a hugely positive moment&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Shropshire&#8217;s tourism sector has passed the \u00a31bn milestone for the first time, according to new figures. The latest&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":496309,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[84,1294,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-496308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496308","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=496308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496308\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/496309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=496308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=496308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=496308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}