{"id":15077,"date":"2011-11-16T09:27:34","date_gmt":"2011-11-16T14:27:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=15077"},"modified":"2011-11-16T09:48:12","modified_gmt":"2011-11-16T14:48:12","slug":"tourism-sector-concerned-over-crime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2011\/11\/tourism-sector-concerned-over-crime","title":{"rendered":"Tourism Sector Concerned Over Crime"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_15097\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15097\" style=\"width: 276px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-15097\" title=\"bahamas-tourism-crime\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/bahamas-tourism-crime.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"276\" height=\"183\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/bahamas-tourism-crime.jpg 276w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/bahamas-tourism-crime-150x99.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/bahamas-tourism-crime-250x165.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 276px) 100vw, 276px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-15097\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bahamas tourism sector concerned over rapidly increasing crime levels<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Speaking at the opening of the Tourism Security Workshops, Minister of National Security Tommy Turnquest emphasised the importance of &#8220;safety and security&#8221; at tourist destinations &#8211; and admitted that crime is a growing concern among tourism stakeholders.<\/p>\n<p>The workshops are designed to offer specialised security training to help officers better combat crime in tourist areas.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Lack of safety and security and instances of crime represent a more serious threat to traveling tourism than any other factor,&#8221; Mr Turnquest said. &#8220;Safety and security are vital to providing quality tourism more than any other economic activity.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We can not and we must not be complacent since there is an urgent consensus that crime is a growing concern of our tourism stakeholders.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Minister of National Security Tommy Turnquest emphasised the importance of &#8220;safety and security&#8221; as alarming, rising crime rates are concerning the Bahamas tourism sector.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"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":[12],"tags":[31,33,73,219],"class_list":["post-15077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines","tag-crime","tag-tourism","tag-travel-2","tag-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15077","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\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15077\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}