{"id":12052,"date":"2011-09-21T10:09:59","date_gmt":"2011-09-21T14:09:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=12052"},"modified":"2011-09-21T10:09:59","modified_gmt":"2011-09-21T14:09:59","slug":"jamaica-sees-tourism-increase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2011\/09\/jamaica-sees-tourism-increase","title":{"rendered":"Jamaica Sees Tourism Increase"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jamaica &#8212; Tourism Minister Edmund Bartlett has reported a 5.7 percent increase in visitor arrivals to Jamaica for January to August of this year, when compared to the similar period in 2010.<\/p>\n<p>The figures show 2,098,964 arrivals up to August, compared to 1,985,784 for last year.<\/p>\n<p>Bartlett credited the positive developments to, among other things, the diversification of the tourism market.<\/p>\n<p>He mentioned countries in Central America as among those being targeted under the diversification initiative, while informing of planned exploits into Eastern Europe, Asia, China and India.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Jamaican Tourism Minister has reported a 5.7 percent increase in visitor arrivals to Jamaica for January to August this year, when compared to the similar period 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":[10],"tags":[58,33],"class_list":["post-12052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world","tag-jamaica","tag-tourism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12052","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=12052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12052\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}