{"id":17173,"date":"2012-01-23T10:15:05","date_gmt":"2012-01-23T15:15:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=17173"},"modified":"2012-01-23T10:47:47","modified_gmt":"2012-01-23T15:47:47","slug":"bermuda-wins-expedias-top-destination-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2012\/01\/bermuda-wins-expedias-top-destination-award","title":{"rendered":"Bermuda Wins Expedia&#8217;s Top Destination Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_17187\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17187\" style=\"width: 250px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-17187\" title=\"Minister-Furbert-Expedia-Award\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Minister-Furbert-Expedia-Award.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"188\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Minister-Furbert-Expedia-Award.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Minister-Furbert-Expedia-Award-150x112.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-17187\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Minister Furbert receiving the Award from Trish Korzeniowski, Market Manager of Expedia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Bermuda won the 2011 Top Destination of the Year Award from Expedia Inc at at a marketing event held at the Atlantis Hotel in the Bahamas on Saturday night [Jan.21]. Expedia is one of the world\u2019s largest and foremost online travel sites.<\/p>\n<p>On hand to accept the award on behalf of Bermuda was the Minister of Business Development and Tourism Wayne Furbert, who is currently in Bahamas participating in the Caribbean Tourism Organization\u2019s Council of Ministers meeting.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to bestowing the award on Bermuda, Trish Korzeniowski, Market Manager of Expedia said, \u201cSince we began to work with Bermuda in 2001, this destination has managed to have the motivation, commitment and partnership of those destinations ten times bigger.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith coordinated seasonal offers, annual marketing presence in US, Canada and UK, a consistent branding look and feel, a try something new attitude and an amazingly focused team, Bermuda is the epitome of the Destination of the Year.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bermuda won the 2011 Top Destination of the Year Award from Expedia at the Caribbean Marketplace event at the Atlantis Hotel in the Bahamas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"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":[55,100,73],"class_list":["post-17173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","tag-awards","tag-caribbean-2","tag-travel-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17173","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\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17173\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}