{"id":19,"date":"2024-09-20T07:16:04","date_gmt":"2024-09-20T07:16:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.weeglasgow.com\/blog\/?p=19"},"modified":"2024-09-23T11:24:26","modified_gmt":"2024-09-23T11:24:26","slug":"glasgows-hospitality-sector-gears-up-for-a-thriving-commonwealth-games-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.weeglasgow.com\/blog\/glasgows-hospitality-sector-gears-up-for-a-thriving-commonwealth-games-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Glasgow&#8217;s Hospitality Sector Gears Up for a Thriving Commonwealth Games 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There are two additional advantages to hosting the Commonwealth Games and these are primarily appealing to the hire and the catering industries. In 2026, the Glasgow hospitality sector has been waiting patiently for the Commonwealth Games to come back. One might say that it is somewhat boisterous as its hotels, bars, and restaurants are getting ready for hundreds of visitors, athletes, and officials, after the fruitful 2014 Commonwealth Games that brought in close to \u00a3390 million within Glasgow. There is no doubt that in this case, it is for the first time that hotel occupancy levels rose to 95% in the previous event with every industry funcionando fuertemente and every firm recording high sales.<br>It comes as insistent to industry heads of various capacities and those heading some of the leading names in the hospitality industry, international tourists are welcome again. The total emphasis and imagination rest with the restaurants since the previous Games brought business to a buzzing atmosphere in important destinations like the West End where the Scottish Exhibition and Conference Centre and The OVO Hydro are located.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The presence of Celtic Park and Hampden Park, and the availability of venues such as the Sir Chris Hoy Velodrome persuasive enough to question why Glasgow cannot be used to host large-scale events Telescopes on the direction of local businesses on the other hand are of the opinion that if not the Commonwealth Games centered in Glasgow in 2026 will outdo the one of 2014 thus reclaiming the place of Glasgow amongst the best places in the world to hold events.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are two additional advantages to hosting the Commonwealth Games and these are primarily appealing to the hire and the catering industries. In 2026, the Glasgow hospitality sector has been&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,5,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-common-wealth-games-2026","category-hospitality","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.weeglasgow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.weeglasgow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.weeglasgow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.weeglasgow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.weeglasgow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.weeglasgow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21,"href":"https:\/\/www.weeglasgow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19\/revisions\/21"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.weeglasgow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.weeglasgow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.weeglasgow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.weeglasgow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}