{"id":11149,"date":"2011-08-17T08:57:10","date_gmt":"2011-08-17T12:57:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=11149"},"modified":"2011-08-17T08:57:34","modified_gmt":"2011-08-17T12:57:34","slug":"seeking-to-expand-tourism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2011\/08\/seeking-to-expand-tourism","title":{"rendered":"Seeking To Expand Tourism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One million tourists visiting Trinidad and Tobago annually.<\/p>\n<p>That is the goal of Dr Bhoe Tewarie, Minister of Planning and the Economy.<\/p>\n<p>Tewarie announced his plans while speaking at the sod turning ceremony for the Chaguaramas Boardwalk at Williams Bay on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>According to Tewarie, the Business Monitor International&#8217;s Caribbean Tourism Report projected tourists arrivals for this country of 577,000 and 594,000 visitors in 2011 and 2012 respectively, spending an estimated US$817 million in 2011 and US$880 million in 2012. According to the report, the Bahamas received close to five million visitors in 2010.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trinidad and Tobago is seeking a million tourists per year, while, according to the Business Monitor International&#8217;s Caribbean Tourism Report, the Bahamas received close to five million visitors in 2010.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[100,40,33],"class_list":["post-11149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","tag-caribbean-2","tag-government","tag-tourism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11149\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}