{"id":71638,"date":"2024-01-07T23:25:23","date_gmt":"2024-01-07T23:25:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.bournemouthone.com\/?p=71638"},"modified":"2024-01-08T07:26:24","modified_gmt":"2024-01-08T07:26:24","slug":"christmas-festivities-declared-a-triumph-as-four-million-people-head-for-bournemouth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.bournemouthone.com\/test\/christmas-festivities-declared-a-triumph-as-four-million-people-head-for-bournemouth\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas festivities declared a &#8220;triumph&#8221; as four million people head for Bournemouth"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"po-inline-articlegate-partialarticle\">\n<div id=\"subscription-content\">\n<p>Bournemouth had a record-breaking Christmas with more than four million people enjoying the town&#8217;s festive attractions.<\/p>\n<p>New figures reveal there were an average of 94,000 visits each day to the Christmas Tree Wonderland trail, Christmas Market and SKATE Ice Rink.<\/p>\n<p>Organisers Seventa Events, SKATE and BCP Council declared the event a \u201ctriumph\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The town centre festivities included live choirs, festive character appearances, complimentary face painting and crafts and workshops in the Alpine Lodge.<\/p>\n<p>New installations were added to the Christmas Tree Wonderland including the light up tunnel and Christmas Train.<\/p>\n<p>The Nutcracker trail proved a big success with one lucky family winning a free holiday from Shorefield Holidays.<\/p>\n<p>Other highlights include a penalty shootout between the AFCB Women&#8217;s team and Cherry Bear and a performance from Eurovision star Sam Ryder in the Square.<\/p>\n<p>Sixty of the event suppliers were based within the conurbation giving a boost to the local economy.<\/p>\n<p>Simon Brooks, Director of Seventa Events, said: &#8220;We are delighted to have played a role in bringing Bournemouth town centre to life with a little festive magic this Christmas.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Alongside Christmas Tree Wonderland and SKATE Ice Rink, we are proud to have delivered what we believe to be the best festive offering across the south coast.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Picture: Seventa Events.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bournemouth enjoyed a record-breaking Christmas with more than four million people enjoying the town&#8217;s festive attractions.<\/p>\n<p>New figures reveal there were an average of 94,000 visits to the Christmas Tree Wonderland trail, Christmas Market and SKATE Ice Rink each day.<\/p>\n<p>The town centre festivities included live choirs, festive character appearances and a performance from Eurovision star Sam Ryder in the Square.<\/p>\n<p>Sixty of the event suppliers were based within the conurbation giving a boost to the local economy.<\/p>\n<p>Organiseers Seventa Events, SKATE and BCP Council declared the event a \u201ctriumph\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":71639,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,156],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bournemouth","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.bournemouthone.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.bournemouthone.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.bournemouthone.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.bournemouthone.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.bournemouthone.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71638"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/news.bournemouthone.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71638\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71643,"href":"https:\/\/news.bournemouthone.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71638\/revisions\/71643"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.bournemouthone.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.bournemouthone.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.bournemouthone.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.bournemouthone.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}