{"id":225242117,"date":"2012-02-20T23:15:17","date_gmt":"2012-02-20T23:15:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=225242117"},"modified":"2012-02-20T23:15:17","modified_gmt":"2012-02-20T23:15:17","slug":"bicycling-may-spin-tourists-our-their-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=225242117","title":{"rendered":"Bicycling may spin tourists our [their] way"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>B&#8217; Spokes: I just had to do this contrast:<br \/>\n&quot;The [bicycling] event is expected to generate $135 million in economic benefit and attract more than 450,000 visitors over nine days.&quot;<br \/>\n&#8211; vs. &#8211;<br \/>\n&quot;In a report released Friday by Visit Baltimore, the city\u2019s tourism bureau said the racing event [Grand Prix] attracted an estimated 160,000 attendees and generated $27.6 million from spending by out-of-town spectators, vendors and race organizers.&quot;<br \/>\nWilliamsburg, VA is hoping to benefit from the North American Cycle Courier Championships in May to read about Williamsburg&#8217;s push to be a cycling destination: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vagazette.com\/articles\/2012\/02\/18\/news\/doc4f3ed9571eeb5735645657.txt\">https:\/\/www.vagazette.com\/articles\/2012\/02\/18\/news\/doc4f3ed9571eeb5735645657.txt<\/a><br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n.<br \/>\nInfo for the Grand Prix came from here: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/baltimore\/news\/2011\/11\/04\/baltimore-grand-prixs-economic-impact.html?page=all\">https:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/baltimore\/news\/2011\/11\/04\/baltimore-grand-prixs-economic-impact.html?page=all<\/a>oldId.20120220231517913<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>B&#8217; Spokes: I just had to do this contrast: &quot;The [bicycling] event is expected to generate $135 million in economic benefit and attract more than 450,000 visitors over nine days.&quot; &#8211; vs. &#8211; &quot;In a report released Friday by Visit Baltimore, the city\u2019s tourism bureau said the racing event [Grand Prix] attracted an estimated 160,000 &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=225242117\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Bicycling may spin tourists our [their] way&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-225242117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biking-elsewhere"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225242117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=225242117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225242117\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=225242117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=225242117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=225242117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}