{"id":15263,"date":"2011-11-21T08:17:33","date_gmt":"2011-11-21T13:17:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=15263"},"modified":"2011-11-21T08:17:33","modified_gmt":"2011-11-21T13:17:33","slug":"diaspora-tourism-critical-to-caribbean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2011\/11\/diaspora-tourism-critical-to-caribbean","title":{"rendered":"Diaspora Tourism Critical to Caribbean"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_15282\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15282\" style=\"width: 250px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-15282\" title=\"walter-elmore\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/walter-elmore-250x226.jpg\" alt=\"Walter Elmore\" width=\"250\" height=\"226\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/walter-elmore-250x226.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/walter-elmore-150x136.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/walter-elmore.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-15282\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Walter Elmore<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Don&#8217;t be mistaken, warns an experienced Caribbean festival producer,  Caribbean Diaspora communities drive tourism in the region, and also  support the development of economies back home.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to journalists, editors and community leaders at Sirius XM  Satellite Radio studios in New York on Friday, Walter Elmore, chairman  of Art of Music Productions Limited, asserted that festival tourism was  key to Jamaica and the Caribbean region and that nationals overseas were  key drivers of business not only to musical festivals, but to the whole  region throughout the year.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Just look at the turnout today &#8211; Caribbean people have come out to  find out what&#8217;s going on at home so they can make their travel plans as  well as bring others along with them,&#8221; said Elmore, who was in Manhattan  for the New York City launch of the 16th annual Jamaica Jazz and Blues  Festival &#8220;The Art of Music&#8221;, a three-day celebration from January 26 to  28, 2012.<\/p>\n<p>Invoking a recent University of the West Indies study on &#8220;Strategic  Opportunities in Caribbean Migration&#8221;, Elmore argued that Diaspora  tourism was critically important to the Caribbean.<\/p>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\" style=\"position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow: hidden;\">Don&#8217;t be mistaken, warns an experienced Caribbean festival producer,  Caribbean Diaspora communities drive tourism in the region, and also  support the development of economies back home.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to journalists, editors and community leaders at Sirius XM  Satellite Radio studios in New York on Friday, Walter Elmore, chairman  of Art of Music Productions Limited, asserted that festival tourism was  key to Jamaica and the Caribbean region and that nationals overseas were  key drivers of business not only to musical festivals, but to the whole  region throughout the year.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Just look at the turnout today &#8212; Caribbean people have come out to  find out what&#8217;s going on at home so they can make their travel plans as  well as bring others along with them,&#8221; said Elmore, who was in Manhattan  for the New York City launch of the 16th annual Jamaica Jazz and Blues  Festival &#8220;The Art of Music&#8221;, a three-day celebration from January 26 to  28, 2012.<\/p>\n<p>Invoking a recent University of the West Indies study on &#8220;Strategic  Opportunities in Caribbean Migration&#8221;, Elmore argued that Diaspora  tourism was critically important to the Caribbean.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Caribbean festival producer, Walter Elmore, asserted that festival tourism was key to Jamaica and the Caribbean region and the Caribbean Diaspora helps drive tourism in the region.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"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":[100,287,33],"class_list":["post-15263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","tag-caribbean-2","tag-festivals","tag-tourism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15263","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\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15263\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}