{"id":24157,"date":"2011-01-24T01:29:44","date_gmt":"2011-01-24T01:29:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/south_carolina_expects_solid_recovery_in_tourism\/"},"modified":"2011-01-24T01:29:44","modified_gmt":"2011-01-24T01:29:44","slug":"south_carolina_expects_solid_recovery_in_tourism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=24157","title":{"rendered":"South Carolina expects solid recovery in tourism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Despite a shaky economy and the specter of higher gas prices, tourism is expected to continue its solid improvement this year in the Carolinas, where it means almost $39 billion to the two states&#8217; economies.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re in the midst of a slow-motion recovery, but tourism remains a bright spot,&#8221; said Brad Dean, president and CEO of the chamber of commerce in Myrtle Beach, the oceanfront town that attracts about 14 million visitors a year.<\/p>\n<p>South Carolina&#8217;s former parks and tourism director agreed.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thetandd.com\/business\/article_28a1382e-2591-11e0-ba7e-001cc4c03286.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite a shaky economy and the specter of higher gas prices, tourism is expected to continue its solid improvement this year in the Carolinas, where it means almost $39 billion to the two states&#8217; economies. &#8220;We&#8217;re in the midst of<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=24157\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,54,615,582,149,151],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics-politics","category-south-carolina","category-city-government","category-consumerconsumer-spending","category-economy","category-politics-in-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24157\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}