{"id":16751,"date":"2012-01-11T09:00:33","date_gmt":"2012-01-11T14:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=16751"},"modified":"2012-01-11T09:25:40","modified_gmt":"2012-01-11T14:25:40","slug":"the-russians-are-coming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2012\/01\/the-russians-are-coming","title":{"rendered":"The Russians Are Coming"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_16766\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16766\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-16766\" title=\"caribbean-marketplace-12\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/caribbean-marketplace-12.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/caribbean-marketplace-12.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/caribbean-marketplace-12-150x112.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-16766\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Caribbean Marketplace 2012<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The region\u2019s premier event for companies to witness the tourism product in action will feature record representation from a unique source \u2013 Russia.<\/p>\n<p>While Caribbean Marketplace 2012 brings together hundreds of delegates from around the world, top officials revealed a particular emphasis on Russian investors as a strong source of tourism and foreign investment.<\/p>\n<p>This year\u2019s event welcomes 11 companies from Russia, according to Alec Sanguinetti, the director general and CEO of the Caribbean Hotel and Tourism Association.<\/p>\n<p>Running from January 22 to January 24, Caribbean Marketplace 2012 in Nassau draws a diverse crop of stakeholders. So far, in excess of 12,000 appointments have already been made between the public and private sector in The Bahamas ahead of the event \u2013 500 more than last year. Event organizers report 26 supplier companies are attending, along with 116 buyer groups with a global presence, including Brazil, the EU, the U.S., Japan and Russia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Caribbean Marketplace 2012 will feature record representation from Russia, with emphasis on Russian investors as a strong source of tourism and foreign investment.<\/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":[3],"tags":[25,47,33],"class_list":["post-16751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","tag-hotels","tag-investing","tag-tourism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16751","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=16751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16751\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}