{"id":11206,"date":"2025-10-22T11:57:18","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T11:57:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/11206\/"},"modified":"2025-10-22T11:57:18","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T11:57:18","slug":"reading-welcomes-travel-journalists-content-creators-to-tourism-conference-reading-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/11206\/","title":{"rendered":"Reading welcomes travel journalists, content creators to tourism conference | Reading Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>READING, Pa. \u2013 Berks County is taking center stage at a regional tourism event this week.<\/p>\n<p>Reading is playing host to the Mid-Atlantic Tourism Public Relations Alliance conference.<\/p>\n<p>The three-day event is bringing dozens of travel journalists and content creators to the area.<\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;ll get to check out everything the county has to offer, from historic landmarks and natural beauty to yearly festivals and more.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;To get them a taste of everything that we have to offer&#8230; and shine a positive light on what we have,&#8221; said Heather Zimmerman, president, Reading and Berks County Visitors Bureau.<\/p>\n<p>County officials say tourism brings close to two million visitors and over $900 million dollars to Berks County&#8217;s economy each year.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"READING, Pa. \u2013 Berks County is taking center stage at a regional tourism event this week. Reading is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11207,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[8848,8847,28,736,128,130,129],"class_list":["post-11206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-berks-county-visitors-bureau","tag-mid-atlantic-tourism-public-relations-alliance","tag-pennsylvania","tag-reading","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11206","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=11206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11206\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}