{"id":10833,"date":"2014-04-16T09:00:03","date_gmt":"2014-04-16T13:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=10833"},"modified":"2014-04-16T07:47:29","modified_gmt":"2014-04-16T11:47:29","slug":"come-visit-westeros","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2014\/come-visit-westeros\/","title":{"rendered":"Come Visit Westeros!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/041614_1142_ComeVisitWe1.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"442\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Westeros, the fictional realm from Game of Thrones, is known mostly for its beheadings, psychopaths, and gruesome murders. For some reason tourists are eager to visit writes Samantha Shankman:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Parts of the show are filmed in Ireland and the country is looking to play up the connection.<\/li>\n<li>Ireland&#8217;s tourism board is launching a social media campaign that shows visitors where Game of Thrones filming locations are in the real world.<\/li>\n<li>A challenge for the country is that people may not realize that the places depicted in the show are real places that people can visit.<\/li>\n<li>Ireland isn&#8217;t the first to have this idea. Travel agencies have long offered &#8220;Game of Thrones&#8221; tours to Ireland, Croatia, and other places where the show is filmed.<\/li>\n<li>However this is the first time the government of Ireland is actively trying to promote its connection to the show.<\/li>\n<li>It is perhaps being inspired by New Zealand where a record number of tourists visited in part because it is the home of The Hobbit movies.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more about the social media campaign, what it will aim to do, and more over <a href=\"http:\/\/qz.com\/196010\/will-game-of-thrones-make-ireland-the-next-new-zealand\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/qz.com\/196010\/will-game-of-thrones-make-ireland-the-next-new-zealand\/\">Quartz<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Westeros, the fictional realm from Game of Thrones, is known mostly for its beheadings, psychopaths, and gruesome murders. For some reason tourists are eager to visit writes Samantha Shankman: Parts of the show are filmed in Ireland and the country is looking to play up the connection. Ireland&#8217;s tourism board is launching a social media [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10832,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/041614_1142_ComeVisitWe1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10833"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10833\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10837,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10833\/revisions\/10837"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}