{"id":16060,"date":"2011-12-10T12:04:07","date_gmt":"2011-12-10T17:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=16060"},"modified":"2011-12-10T12:05:26","modified_gmt":"2011-12-10T17:05:26","slug":"bahamas-missing-out-on-lucrative-golf-tourism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2011\/12\/bahamas-missing-out-on-lucrative-golf-tourism","title":{"rendered":"Bahamas Missing Out On Lucrative Golf Tourism"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_16062\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16062\" style=\"width: 486px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-16062 \" title=\"golfbahamas\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/golfbahamas.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"486\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/golfbahamas.jpg 540w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/golfbahamas-150x69.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/golfbahamas-250x115.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 486px) 100vw, 486px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-16062\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ocean Culb Golf Course. file photo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>There is a gaping whole in the tourism product, according to one author, accountant and renowned golfer who says the right mix of golf courses could attract 2.5 million stopovers in two-to-three years.<\/p>\n<p>Foreign air arrivals to The Bahamas were 1.294 million in 2010, comparable to numbers not seen since the mid 1980s, with 2011 looking to close three-to-four percent below 2010, according to a recent statement by the minister of tourism. Lockhart says there is a direct relation to those numbers and the lack of a variety of well-priced golf alternatives, with tourists flying beyond The Bahamas in droves to sate their golfing hunger.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are the only destination in the world that\u2019s closed golf courses,\u201d Lockhart said. \u201cWe had 17, 18 at our peek period, now we have like 11 or 12.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Golf has proven to be a very lucrative tourist draw in other nations in the region but the Bahamas is missing out by not having the right mix of well-priced golf courses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"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":[100,50,33],"class_list":["post-16060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel","tag-caribbean-2","tag-golf","tag-tourism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16060","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\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16060\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}