{"id":2729,"date":"2010-03-18T12:03:10","date_gmt":"2010-03-18T10:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/?p=2729"},"modified":"2010-03-18T18:23:02","modified_gmt":"2010-03-18T16:23:02","slug":"tourist-san-francisco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/tourist-san-francisco\/","title":{"rendered":"Tourist spending in San Francisco fell 8%"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/tourist-san-francisco1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2731\" title=\"Tourist spending in San Francisco fell 8%\" src=\"http:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/tourist-san-francisco1-340x202.jpg\" alt=\"Tourist spending in San Francisco fell 8%\" width=\"340\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/tourist-san-francisco1-340x202.jpg 340w, https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/tourist-san-francisco1-502x300.jpg 502w, https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/tourist-san-francisco1.jpg 560w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 340px) 100vw, 340px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>The 2009 tourism numbers have been tallied, and the results are grim.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Visitors to San Francisco spent 7.8 percent less in 2009 than they did in 2008, a record year.<\/p>\n<p>While that figure is less than 8.8 percent drop in spending predicted by the U.S. Travel Association, it still equals bad news for San Francisco, which saw its tourism-generated tax revenue plummet 19.2 percent to $426 million in 2009.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The data is not unexpected, but it&#8217;s especially disturbing in light of the importance of tourism to the economic health of San Francisco,&#8221; said Joe D&#8217;Alessandro, president and CEO of the Convention &amp; Visitors Bureau. &#8220;The global financial uncertainty has taken a toll on tourism in destinations across the country.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In all, some 15.4 million people came to San Francisco last year \u2014 5.8 percent fewer than came in 2008 \u2014 and they spent $7.8 billion.<\/p>\n<p>That spending, and those guests, supported 66,837 jobs last year.<\/p>\n<!-- Either there are no banners, they are disabled or none qualified for this location! -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2009 tourism numbers have been tallied, and the results are grim. Visitors to San Francisco spent 7.8 percent less in 2009 than they did in 2008, a record year. While that figure is less than 8.8 percent drop in spending predicted by the U.S. Travel Association, it still equals bad news for San Francisco, [&hellip;]<\/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":[137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sectoral"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2729","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=2729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2729\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}