{"id":259372,"date":"2026-08-05T03:08:07","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T03:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/259372\/"},"modified":"2026-08-05T03:08:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T03:08:07","slug":"historic-bethlehem-museums-sites-launches-major-tourism-study-to-enhance-visitor-experience-bethlehem-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/259372\/","title":{"rendered":"Historic Bethlehem Museums &#038; Sites launches major tourism study to enhance visitor experience | Bethlehem Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BETHLEHEM, Pa. &#8211; Historic Bethlehem Museums &amp; Sites (HBMS) is taking the first step in improving the city for visitors.<\/p>\n<p>Officials announced a major tourism plan to create what they call a world-class visitor experience.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers will examine how tourist-related improvements could increase revenue for the city.<\/p>\n<p>The study covers 20 acres of land and 20 historic buildings.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We need to find a way to improve the visitor experience near-term and long-term&#8230; and also use that revenue to help us maintain what we have and improve the experience.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>improvements could include better parking, walking paths, signage and a centralized welcome location.<\/p>\n<p>Learn more at <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/historicbethlehem.org\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">historicbethlehem.org<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BETHLEHEM, Pa. &#8211; Historic Bethlehem Museums &amp; Sites (HBMS) is taking the first step in improving the city&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":259373,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154,110097,13875,61096,5541,4553,110094,110096,110095,110098],"class_list":["post-259372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news","tag-city-revenue","tag-historic-bethlehem-museums-sites","tag-historic-buildings","tag-parking","tag-signage","tag-tourism-plan","tag-urban-improvement","tag-visitor-experience","tag-walking-paths"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259372","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=259372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259372\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/259373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}