{"id":2378,"date":"2010-01-25T15:38:53","date_gmt":"2010-01-25T13:38:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/?p=2378"},"modified":"2010-01-25T15:38:53","modified_gmt":"2010-01-25T13:38:53","slug":"south-dakota-tourism-numbers-buck-national-decline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/south-dakota-tourism-numbers-buck-national-decline\/","title":{"rendered":"South Dakota tourism numbers buck national decline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>South Dakota had a record number of visitors in 2009, according to a Global Insight study released Thursday evening at the 2010 annual Governor\u2019s Tourism Conference in Pierre.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/south-dakota-tourism.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-2379\" title=\"South Dakota tourism numbers buck national decline\" src=\"http:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/south-dakota-tourism-280x220.jpg\" alt=\"South Dakota tourism numbers buck national decline\" width=\"280\" height=\"220\" \/><\/a>South Dakota bucked national tourism trends with a 1.2 percent increase in visitor numbers last year. While South Dakota saw an increase in 2009, travel experts indicate the nation had a more than 7 percent drop in tourism.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSouth Dakota\u2019s visitor industry should be very proud,\u201d said Gov. Mike Rounds. \u201cWhile most states are seeing visitor numbers decline, we\u2019ve positioned ourselves as an affordable, yet premier travel destination.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>South Dakota was able to use the national recession as a window of opportunity to secure a larger market share, the Governor said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the face of the economic downturn, the state\u2019s decision to invest in tourism marketing paid off,\u201d Gov. Rounds continued. \u201cSouth Dakota\u2019s tourism industry is helping stabilize our state\u2019s economy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While the recession has weakened sales tax revenues and other state tax collections, things would have been much worse for the state without a good year for tourism, the Governor added.<\/p>\n<!-- Either there are no banners, they are disabled or none qualified for this location! -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Dakota had a record number of visitors in 2009, according to a Global Insight study released Thursday evening at the 2010 annual Governor\u2019s Tourism Conference in Pierre.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"jnews_post_split":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tourism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2378\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}