{"id":8800,"date":"2025-07-19T19:17:18","date_gmt":"2025-07-19T19:17:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/8800\/"},"modified":"2025-07-19T19:17:18","modified_gmt":"2025-07-19T19:17:18","slug":"tourisms-impact-on-york-economy-grows-report-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/8800\/","title":{"rendered":"Tourism’s impact on York economy grows – report finds"},"content":{"rendered":"

The number of visitors staying overnight in York reached 1.7m in 2024, the report said, adding that it was a “slight” increase on the previous year.<\/p>\n

More than half of those used serviced accommodation, such as hotels.<\/p>\n

Concerns had recently been raised<\/a> by residents in York about the impact of short-term rental accommodation on the city’s housing market.<\/p>\n

Mr Lerigo said it was “really important” to find a balance, and avoid “over-tourism”, similar to that being seen in Spain.<\/a><\/p>\n

Make It York was beginning to examine social impact and social return of tourism, he added.<\/p>\n

“Economic return is a lot easier to understand the impact of, but there’s other things as well and we want to make sure it’s sustainable.”<\/p>\n

That work included encouraging visitors to use public transport, including park and ride services.<\/p>\n

“We want to make sure that we’re benefitting as many people as we can, both locals and tourists alike.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The number of visitors staying overnight in York reached 1.7m in 2024, the report said, adding that it…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8801,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[84,1294,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-8800","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\/8800","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=8800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8800\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}