{"id":15502,"date":"2011-11-24T09:14:40","date_gmt":"2011-11-24T14:14:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=15502"},"modified":"2011-11-24T09:14:40","modified_gmt":"2011-11-24T14:14:40","slug":"more-tourists-less-money-for-the-caribbean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2011\/11\/more-tourists-less-money-for-the-caribbean","title":{"rendered":"More Tourists, Less Money For The Caribbean"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-229\" style=\"margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px;\" title=\"Beach in Nassau Morning\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/bahamas-real-estate.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"280\" height=\"185\" \/>It&#8217;s a good news-bad news deal for tourism in the sun-soaked  Caribbean. Visits are surging but revenues are not keeping pace.<\/p>\n<p>Analysts  attribute the rising number of visitors to more cruise ships and  flights to the region, and people taking trips they had postponed  because of the economic crisis. But when they get to their destination,  Caribbean officials say, tourists are spending less.<\/p>\n<p>Caribbean countries such as the Bahamas, St. Lucia and the  Dominican Republic announced a record number of visitors last year.  Caribbean tourism officials hope to surpass the more than 23 million  visitors reported last year this winter season.<\/p>\n<p>Registration for  the Caribbean Marketplace, the region&#8217;s largest marketing event that  will be held in the Bahamas in late January and aims to create vacation  packages, is up by nearly 50 percent compared with last year, Forstmayr  said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a good news-bad news deal for tourism in the sun-soaked Caribbean. Visits are surging but revenues are not keeping pace.<\/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":[9],"tags":[111,73,295],"class_list":["post-15502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel","tag-cruise","tag-travel-2","tag-vacations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15502","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=15502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15502\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}