{"id":190756,"date":"2026-03-13T21:51:19","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T21:51:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/190756\/"},"modified":"2026-03-13T21:51:19","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T21:51:19","slug":"jacksonvilles-sports-surge-this-month-expected-to-bring-nearly-55m-economic-impact-boost-tourism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/190756\/","title":{"rendered":"Jacksonville\u2019s sports surge this month expected to bring nearly $55M economic impact, boost tourism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEWS<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 lhBXaj jdBbpv\">A packed March sports calendar is expected to deliver a major economic boost to Jacksonville, driving hotel bookings and visitor spending as the region hosts everything from championship golf to youth sports and relay races.<br \/>\nAmong the biggest draws this month is THE PLAYERS Championship at TPC Sawgrass, which is estimated to generate 25,000 hotel rooms and about $40 million in economic impact for Duval County, according to figures provided by Visit Jacksonville.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEWS A packed March sports calendar is expected to deliver a major economic boost to Jacksonville, driving hotel&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":190757,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[740,116,118,117,2159,84980,110,1316],"class_list":["post-190756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-economy","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news","tag-money","tag-players-championship","tag-sports","tag-tourism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190756","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=190756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190756\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/190757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}