{"id":125977,"date":"2026-01-21T05:49:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T05:49:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/125977\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T05:49:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T05:49:10","slug":"st-pete-ranks-fifth-among-emerging-hot-spots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/125977\/","title":{"rendered":"St. Pete ranks fifth among \u2019emerging hot spots\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>January 20, 2026 &#8211; LocalsInsider, using recently released Bureau of Labor Statistics data, ranked the &#8220;top 20 emerging <a href=\"https:\/\/localsinsider.com\/travel-insights\/where-americans-are-traveling-top-destinations-and-travel-statistics\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">U.S. travel hot spots<\/a>&#8221; by comparing increases in airport passengers from January through July 2024 and 2025. St. Petersburg came in at No. 5 as St. Pete-Clearwater International Airport saw a 9.6% year-over-year increase in arriving passengers. Knoxville, Tennessee, paced the nation with a 13.5% increase at McGhee Tyson Airport over the same period.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/stpetecatalyst.com\/zaps\" class=\"btn btn-aqua\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">More Zaps<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/stpetecatalyst.com\" class=\"btn btn-aqua\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Frontpage<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"January 20, 2026 &#8211; LocalsInsider, using recently released Bureau of Labor Statistics data, ranked the &#8220;top 20 emerging&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":88456,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":{"0":"post-125977","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-st-petersburg","8":"tag-st-pete","9":"tag-st-pete-headlines","10":"tag-st-pete-news","11":"tag-st-petersburg","12":"tag-st-petersburg-headlines","13":"tag-st-petersburg-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125977\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}