{"id":97167587,"date":"2010-07-23T10:45:00","date_gmt":"2010-07-23T10:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/bp-spill-could-cost-gulf-billions-in-travel\/"},"modified":"2010-07-23T10:45:00","modified_gmt":"2010-07-23T10:45:00","slug":"bp-spill-could-cost-gulf-billions-in-travel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/bp-spill-could-cost-gulf-billions-in-travel\/","title":{"rendered":"BP Spill Could Cost Gulf Billions in Travel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\">\n<strong>BP Spill could cost Gulf Coast $23 billion in next three years<\/strong>\n<\/div>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAccording to a study released on Thursday by Oxford Economics and the U.S. Travel Association, the BP oil spill could cost the U.S. Gulf Coast region almost $23 billion in lost travel and tourism business over the next three years.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nTo assist an area where some 400,000 jobs are reliant on visitation, Oxford and U.S. Travel also called for BP to fund $500 million, an &ldquo;aggressive and comprehensive&rdquo; marketing effort to hype the Gulf as a destination.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe report was based on an Oxford study of 25 recent natural and man-made disasters, including other oil spills, hurricanes, acts of terrorism, the Asian tsunami, and pandemics.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nOut of those disasters, only hurricanes have an equally long window of impact on tourism as oil spills.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<em>Source:<\/em><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/story\/study-spill-may-cost-gulf-23-billion-in-tourism-2010-07-22?reflink=MW_news_stmp\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Market Watch<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; BP Spill could cost Gulf Coast $23 billion in next three years &nbsp; According to a study released on Thursday by Oxford Economics and the U.S. Travel Association, the BP oil spill could cost the U.S. Gulf Coast region almost $23 billion in lost travel and tourism business over the next three years. &nbsp; [&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-97167587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97167587","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=97167587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97167587\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97167587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97167587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97167587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}