{"id":511912,"date":"2026-04-04T04:22:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T04:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/511912\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T04:22:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T04:22:10","slug":"captivating-portmeirion-celebrates-turning-100","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/511912\/","title":{"rendered":"Captivating Portmeirion celebrates turning 100"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">However, it is the ongoing popularity with the wider public that keeps Portmeirion running, with about 250,000 people visiting the village in Gwynedd, north Wales, every year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Portmeirion finance director Ian Roberts said: &#8220;We need to make sure we generate enough revenue for the upkeep of all these buildings, which is not cheap.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The village employs about 200 staff, which can rise to more 270 in summer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 61 bedrooms of the Portmeirion Hotel and Castell Deudraeth Hotel, and 13 holiday lets, are crucial to the business. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They need constant investment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We need to maintain our standards, and improve the standards,&#8221; Roberts said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"However, it is the ongoing popularity with the wider public that keeps Portmeirion running, with about 250,000 people&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":511913,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[96,59,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-511912","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-gb","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511912","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=511912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511912\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/511913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=511912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=511912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=511912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}