{"id":24836,"date":"2020-02-07T15:35:53","date_gmt":"2020-02-07T15:35:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.goskydive.com\/?p=24836"},"modified":"2020-02-07T15:35:53","modified_gmt":"2020-02-07T15:35:53","slug":"goskydive-earns-silver-south-west-tourism-excellence-awards-2019-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.goskydive.com\/goskydive-earns-silver-south-west-tourism-excellence-awards-2019-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"GoSkydive earns a silver at the South West Tourism Excellence Awards 2019\/2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>GoSkydive has announced today that they have won silver at the finals of the South West Leisure and Tourism Excellence Awards 2019\/2020 in the \u2018Active and Sporting Experience Award\u2019 for its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goskydive.com\/the-experience\/\">tandem skydiving experience<\/a>. This was the region\u2019s \u2018grand final\u2019 in tourism awards.<\/p>\n<p>This year saw a record of 773 entries and the panel team of 50 judges undertook a record 559 \u2018secret shopper\u2019 visits. The awards ceremony was held February 6th, 2020 at Exeter Cathedral.<\/p>\n<p>GoSkydive jump almost 10,000 first time skydivers per annum at Old Sarum and welcome 60,000 plus visitors each year to Old Sarum Airfield in Salisbury.<\/p>\n<p>Paul Shipway, <strong>General Manager of GoSkydive<\/strong> said \u201c<em>We are incredibly pleased to have won silver at such a prestigious awards ceremony. I\u2019d like to thank our team for helping to make this possible. It\u2019s a real privilege to work with such talented and committed people. Reaching the finals at 3 of the last 4 years is excellent recognition for us as a business.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Carl Griffiths, <strong>Marketing Manager of GoSkydive<\/strong> said \u201c<em>We were up against the very best businesses in South West Leisure and Tourism. To come away with a silver is amazing. I\u2019d like to thank all our customers and visitors who helped make this possible.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GoSkydive has announced today that they have won silver at the finals of the South West Leisure and Tourism Excellence Awards 2019\/2020 in the \u2018Active and Sporting Experience Award\u2019 for its tandem skydiving experience. This was the region\u2019s \u2018grand final\u2019 in tourism awards. This year saw a record of 773 entries and the panel team [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goskydive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goskydive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goskydive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goskydive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goskydive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.goskydive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24836\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goskydive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goskydive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goskydive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}