{"id":539,"date":"2015-08-24T09:23:27","date_gmt":"2015-08-24T15:23:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skikimberley.com\/?p=539"},"modified":"2015-08-19T10:50:23","modified_gmt":"2015-08-19T16:50:23","slug":"tourism-is-bustling-in-kimberley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skikimberley.com\/blog\/tourism-is-bustling-in-kimberley\/","title":{"rendered":"Tourism is Bustling in Kimberley"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_540\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/skikimberley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/SunMine-Scott-Kevin-300x200.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-540\" class=\"wp-image-540 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/skikimberley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/SunMine-Scott-Kevin-300x200-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"City of Kimberley's Scott Sommerville (left) &amp; Kevin Wilson (right).  \" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-540\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">City of Kimberley&#8217;s Scott Sommerville (left) &amp; Kevin Wilson (right). Photo courtesy of e-know.ca.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A lot\u00a0of building investments, a slew of new businesses,\u00a0a plethora of festivals and activities, mixed with an enthusiastic local spirit has helped Kimberley&#8217;s tourism industry stay strong in a time when many have seen a decline. \u00a0According to Kevin Wilson, the City of Kimberley&#8217;s Economic Development Officer, &#8220;With the exchange rate at its lowest levels in 13 years, our region is enjoying the duel benefit of more visits from Americans as well as increased visitation from neighbours in Alberta who are staying closer to home.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Read more about the &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.e-know.ca\/news\/positive-trends-in-kimberley\/\" target=\"_blank\">Positive Trends in Kimberley<\/a>&#8221; on the e-know website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A lot\u00a0of building investments, a slew of new businesses,\u00a0a plethora of festivals and activities, mixed with an enthusiastic local spirit has helped Kimberley&#8217;s tourism industry stay strong in a time when many have seen a decline. \u00a0According to Kevin Wilson, the City of Kimberley&#8217;s Economic Development Officer, &#8220;With the exchange rate at its lowest levels<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":541,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[39,37,42,43,22,48,25,44,45],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skikimberley.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skikimberley.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skikimberley.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skikimberley.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skikimberley.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skikimberley.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skikimberley.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skikimberley.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skikimberley.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skikimberley.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}