{"id":525983,"date":"2026-04-11T23:37:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T23:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/525983\/"},"modified":"2026-04-11T23:37:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T23:37:09","slug":"call-to-get-more-durham-tourists-to-stay-overnight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/525983\/","title":{"rendered":"Call to get more Durham tourists to stay overnight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Michelle Gorman, managing director at Visit Durham, said the lack of visitor accommodation in the area meant people were not staying longer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She told the meeting: &#8220;We have a fabulous coastline and much has been done over the last 20 years to improve it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It is one of our fastest-growing areas, the challenge we have is the lack of visitor accommodation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A 400m buffer zone is currently in place along the Durham Coast to protect wildlife and sea life and prevent developments.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;To get any visitor accommodation is really challenging,&#8221; Ms Gorman added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We are trying to get more family-friendly accommodation because the coast gets really busy with day visitors.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Michelle Gorman, managing director at Visit Durham, said the lack of visitor accommodation in the area meant people&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":525984,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[84,59,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-525983","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-business","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\/525983","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=525983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525983\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/525984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=525983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=525983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=525983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}