{"id":62566,"date":"2017-08-18T09:00:55","date_gmt":"2017-08-18T13:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=62566"},"modified":"2017-08-18T07:20:47","modified_gmt":"2017-08-18T11:20:47","slug":"church-times-visit-england-report-sharp-drop-in-visitor-numbers-to-churches-and-cathedrals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=62566","title":{"rendered":"(Church Times) Visit England report: sharp drop in visitor numbers to churches and cathedrals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Visitor numbers at churches and cathedrals fell significantly last year, \u201clargely driven\u201d by a drop in visitors to St Paul\u2019s and Westminster Abbey, a report by Visit England states.<\/p>\n<p><a tabindex=\"-1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.visitbritain.org\/sites\/default\/files\/vb-corporate\/Documents-Library\/documents\/England-documents\/annual_attractions_trend_report_2016.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The report<\/a><em>\u00a0Visitor Attraction Trends in England 2016<\/em>, published last week, recorded a two-per-cent rise in the number of visitors to English sites in general in 2016 compared with 2015. But the number of visitors to places of worship dropped by eight per cent.<\/p>\n<p>The sharp drop came as a surprise: between 2014 and 2015 there was a decline of less than one per cent in visitors to the cathedrals and churches monitored by Visit England.<\/p>\n<p>No single reason has emerged as to why churches and cathedrals could be struggling to attract visitors. The fear of terrorism, rising entry fees, a post-London Olympics lull, and different ways of counting have all been suggested.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.churchtimes.co.uk\/articles\/2017\/18-august\/news\/uk\/visit-england-report-sharp-drop-in-visitor-numbers-to-churches-and-cathedrals\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Visitor numbers at churches and cathedrals fell significantly last year, \u201clargely driven\u201d by a drop in visitors to St Paul\u2019s and Westminster Abbey, a report by Visit England states. The report\u00a0Visitor Attraction Trends in England 2016, published last week, recorded<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=62566\">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":[389,184],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church-of-england-coe","category-parish-ministry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62566","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=62566"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62566\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62568,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62566\/revisions\/62568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}