{"id":10215,"date":"2025-10-21T16:03:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T16:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/10215\/"},"modified":"2025-10-21T16:03:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T16:03:08","slug":"summer-snapshot-erie-tourism-grows-in-2025-local-news-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/10215\/","title":{"rendered":"Summer Snapshot: Erie Tourism Grows in 2025 | Local News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"VisitErie Posts Summer 2025 Tourism Numbers\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full default\" width=\"728\" height=\"409\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>VisitErie has released data about last summer\u2019s tourism in Erie County.<\/p>\n<p>59% of visitors came from out of state, a 2.2% increase compared to 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Most of the visitors came from Pittsburgh, Cleveland-Akron and Buffalo.<\/p>\n<p>Hotel occupancy increased by 2%.<\/p>\n<p>Outdoor recreation was the top draw for tourists. It attracted about 45% of visitors.<\/p>\n<p>The organization spent more money on advertising this year. More than half of the $415 thousand spent came from a grant.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis increase allowed VisitErie to be more impactful in its approach, utilizing a wider range of tactics to introduce the new brand to all target markets and experiment with new strategies,\u201d VisitErie said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"VisitErie has released data about last summer\u2019s tourism in Erie County. 59% of visitors came from out of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10216,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[136,142,138,137,8237,8239,8238,8236],"class_list":["post-10215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-erie","tag-erie-county","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news","tag-erie-tourism","tag-hotel-occupancy","tag-outdoor-recreation","tag-visiterie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10215\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}