{"id":124656,"date":"2015-05-20T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-05-19T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/london-record-number-of-foreign-tourists-in-2014\/"},"modified":"2026-03-28T22:26:58","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T20:26:58","slug":"london-record-number-of-foreign-tourists-in-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/london-record-number-of-foreign-tourists-in-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"London: Record Number of Foreign Tourists in 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Last year, London was visited by 17.4 million foreign tourists, 3.5% more than in 2013, according to data published by the Office for National Statistics (ONS).<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Tourists spent 11.8 billion GBP, an increase of 3% compared to 2013.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, considers the figures to be immense and hopes that even more tourists will come this year, with England hosting the Rugby World Cup.<\/div>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.economica.net\" data-wplink-url-error=\"true\">Economica<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Frequently Asked Questions<\/h3>\n<p><strong>How many foreign tourists visited London in 2014?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>London welcomed a record 17.4 million foreign tourists in 2014, representing a 3.5% increase compared to the previous year.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What was the total spending by foreign tourists in London in 2014?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Foreign tourists spent a total of 11.8 billion GBP in London during 2014, up 3% from 2013.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why was a further increase in tourism expected for 2015?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Tourism numbers were expected to rise in 2015 due to England hosting the Rugby World Cup, a major international sporting event.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last year, London was visited by 17.4 million foreign tourists, 3.5% more than in 2013, according to data published by the Office for National Statistics (ONS). Tourists spent 11.8 billion GBP, an increase of 3% compared to 2013. The Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, considers the figures to be immense and hopes that even more&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":65424,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2858],"tags":[],"thb-sponsors":[],"class_list":["post-124656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tourism"],"article_style_override":"","post-style":"","post_via":"","post-top-image":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/turism-2.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124656\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124656"},{"taxonomy":"thb-sponsors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/thb-sponsors?post=124656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}