{"id":530808,"date":"2026-04-14T19:17:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T19:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/530808\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T19:17:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T19:17:09","slug":"overseas-visitors-increase-adds-374m-to-kent-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/530808\/","title":{"rendered":"Overseas visitors increase adds \u00a3374m to Kent economy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The county of Kent saw an 11% increase in overseas visitors to the region in 2024, generating more than \u00a3374m for the local economy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 1.3m international trips meant that revenue increased by 9% compared to 2023, Visit Kent said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In total, 66m trips were made to the county in 2024 &#8211; which included visitors from the UK and overseas &#8211; which generated \u00a34.1bn for Kent. It is the highest figure since 2019, before the Covid-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Joss Croft OBE, CEO of tourism body UKinbound, said: &#8220;It is fantastic to see such positive growth in international visits to Kent, and these results highlight the valuable role the inbound visitor economy continues to play in supporting local businesses and jobs.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The county of Kent saw an 11% increase in overseas visitors to the region in 2024, generating more&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":530809,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[84,1294,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-530808","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-economy","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530808","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=530808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530808\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/530809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=530808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=530808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=530808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}