{"id":237814466,"date":"2012-07-15T11:34:26","date_gmt":"2012-07-15T11:34:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=237814466"},"modified":"2012-07-15T11:34:26","modified_gmt":"2012-07-15T11:34:26","slug":"outdoor-industry-report-says-recreational-cycling-pumps-81-billion-into-u-s-economy-each-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=237814466","title":{"rendered":"Outdoor Industry report says recreational cycling pumps $81 billion into U.S. economy each year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Jonathan Maus, Bike Portland<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nAccording to the report, Americans spend more on bicycling gear and trips ($81 billion) than they do on airplane tickets ($51 billion). That $81 billion is spread between $10 billion on bikes, gear, and accessories and over $70 billion on bicycle &quot;trip related sales.&quot; The direct economic impact of that spending supports 772,146 jobs. The report claims that the &quot;ripple effect spending&quot; of all this bicycling activity is over $198 billion and supports 1,478,475 jobs.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nThe OIA says outdoor recreation is an &quot;overlooked economic giant.&quot; With annual spending at $646 billion, it&#8217;s third in total annual consumer spending behind only financial services\/insurance and health care spending. By way of comparison, total annual spending on motor vehicles and parts is just $340 billion.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/bikeportland.org\/2012\/06\/20\/outdoor-recreation-report-says-bicycling-pumps-81-billion-into-u-s-economy-each-year-73608\">https:\/\/bikeportland.org\/2012\/06\/20\/outdoor-recreation-report-says-bicycling-pumps-81-billion-into-u-s-economy-each-year-73608<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Jonathan Maus, Bike Portland &#8230; According to the report, Americans spend more on bicycling gear and trips ($81 billion) than they do on airplane tickets ($51 billion). That $81 billion is spread between $10 billion on bikes, gear, and accessories and over $70 billion on bicycle &quot;trip related sales.&quot; The direct economic impact of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=237814466\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Outdoor Industry report says recreational cycling pumps $81 billion into U.S. economy each year&#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-237814466","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\/237814466","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=237814466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237814466\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=237814466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=237814466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=237814466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}