{"id":11400,"date":"2011-08-30T08:41:32","date_gmt":"2011-08-30T12:41:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=11400"},"modified":"2011-08-30T08:41:32","modified_gmt":"2011-08-30T12:41:32","slug":"atlantis-to-host-caribbean-marketplace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2011\/08\/atlantis-to-host-caribbean-marketplace","title":{"rendered":"Atlantis To Host Caribbean Marketplace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Caribbean Hotel and Tourism Association is celebrating the 30th Anniversary of Caribbean Marketplace in 2012, to be held at Atlantis, Paradise Island, Bahamas.<\/p>\n<p>The association said it anticipated the 2012 edition of the event will continue the successes achieved at Caribbean Marketplace 2011, which saw the third largest attendance over the past decade as well as an increase in the number of crucial buyer companies by 20 per cent and buyer delegates by 17 per cent.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOver the course of the past 30 years, the packaging of Caribbean vacations has changed because of the role Caribbean Marketplace has played in shaping the way business is conducted between tour operators, hoteliers, attractions and restaurants,\u201d said Josef Forstmayr, Caribbean Hotel and Tourism Association President.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn 2011, we saw a 22 per cent increase in wholesaler buyer companies in attendance at Caribbean Marketplace which is a clear indication that there is a tremendous interest in Caribbean vacations across \u2028the globe.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Caribbean Marketplace 2012 &#8211; the requisite business-to-business marketing event for the Caribbean hotel and tourism industry &#8211; will be held at Atlantis in January, 2012. <\/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":[109,153,100,25,33],"class_list":["post-11400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","tag-atlantis","tag-business-2","tag-caribbean-2","tag-hotels","tag-tourism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11400","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=11400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11400\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}