{"id":94691937,"date":"2011-02-16T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-02-16T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/harry-potter-helps-spark-record-profits-at-universal-orlando\/"},"modified":"2014-08-04T12:40:06","modified_gmt":"2014-08-04T12:40:06","slug":"harry-potter-helps-spark-record-profits-at-universal-orlando","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/harry-potter-helps-spark-record-profits-at-universal-orlando\/","title":{"rendered":"Harry Potter Helps Spark Record Profits at Universal Orlando"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Visitors pass through Hogsemeade Village at The Wizarding&lt;br \/&gt;\nWorld of Harry Potter (Image: Wikimedi)\" src=\"\/miles-away\/wp-content\/uploads\/files\/2011\/2\/The_Wizarding_World_of_Harry_Potter.jpg\" alt=\"Visitors pass through Hogsemeade Village at The Wizarding World of&lt;br \/&gt;\nHarry Potter (Image: Wikimedi)\" width=\"450\" height=\"340\" \/><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>The popular Hogsmeade Village in the Wizarding World of Harry Potter <\/strong><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In just six months of operation, the Wizarding World of Harry Potter helped lift attendance at Universal Orlando by nearly 20 percent for 2010.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Universal announced earlier this week that 11.2 million people passed through its parks in 2010, up nearly 2 million from the year before. Officials said the Harry Potter theme park, which garnered international attention when it opened in mid-June, deserved much of the credit for the boost in attendance.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>And visitors weren\u2019t just passing through; many plunked down cash for Potter-themed souvenirs and refreshments like wands, butterbeer, and chocolate frogs. Annual revenue for the parks jumped nearly 41 percent on the year.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Officials can only hope that the Harry Potter Magic continues into 2011.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Source: Miami Herald <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The popular Hogsmeade Village in the Wizarding World of Harry Potter &nbsp; In just six months of operation, the Wizarding World of Harry Potter helped lift attendance at Universal Orlando by nearly 20 percent for 2010. &nbsp; Universal announced earlier this week that 11.2 million people passed through its parks in 2010, up nearly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94691937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94691937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94691937"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94691937\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97168525,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94691937\/revisions\/97168525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94691937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94691937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94691937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}