{"id":435,"date":"2009-08-19T17:02:28","date_gmt":"2009-08-19T14:02:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/?p=435"},"modified":"2009-08-25T14:00:47","modified_gmt":"2009-08-25T11:00:47","slug":"football-stadium-vies-for-tourism-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/football-stadium-vies-for-tourism-title\/","title":{"rendered":"Football stadium vies for tourism title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/football-stadium-tourism-title.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-436\" title=\"Football stadium vies for tourism title\" src=\"http:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/football-stadium-tourism-title-280x220.jpg\" alt=\"Football stadium vies for tourism title\" width=\"280\" height=\"220\" \/><\/a>Bands Take That and Oasis have helped a North-East football stadium to be nominated for a business tourism award.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sunderland\u2019s Stadium of Light has been shortlisted in the North-East England Tourism Awards for the Business Tourism of the Year Award.<\/p>\n<p>It comes after the stadium hosted about 250,000 visitors in only eight weeks.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to a number of corporate events and private functions this summer, the stadium hosted the first two nights of Take That\u2019s The Circus tour, as well as an Oasis concert.<\/p>\n<p>It has held graduation ceremonies accommodating more than 12,000 university guests and graduates during the summer and hosted a funfair in June and last month.<\/p>\n<p>Gary Hutchinson, group catering and events manager at Sunderland AFC, said: \u201cThe Stadium of Light has proven to be an immensely versatile and accessible venue and a highly regarded business tourism destination.<\/p>\n<p>This award is fantastic recognition for what is a fantastic setting.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Business Tourism of the Year Award will be announced at the awards ceremony at the Hilton Newcastle Gateshead in October.<\/p>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\" style=\"position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 244px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;\"><!-- Either there are no banners, they are disabled or none qualified for this location! --><\/div>\n<!-- Either there are no banners, they are disabled or none qualified for this location! -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bands Take That and Oasis have helped a North-East football stadium to be nominated for a business tourism award.<\/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":[126],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435","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=435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}