{"id":17662,"date":"2012-02-06T09:30:17","date_gmt":"2012-02-06T14:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=17662"},"modified":"2012-02-06T10:33:43","modified_gmt":"2012-02-06T15:33:43","slug":"buyers-increase-at-caribbean-marketplace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2012\/02\/buyers-increase-at-caribbean-marketplace","title":{"rendered":"Buyers Increase at Caribbean Marketplace"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_17001\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17001\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-17001\" title=\"caribbean-marketplace-30\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/caribbean-marketplace-30.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/caribbean-marketplace-30.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/caribbean-marketplace-30-150x112.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-17001\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Caribbean Marketplace<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The 30th anniversary of the Caribbean  Marketplace,  recently held at the Atlantis Resort in Paradise Island, Bahamas,  included a  significant presence of Russian Buyers to give credibility  to the hopes of  Caribbean government officials that there is light at  the end of the tourism  tunnel.<\/p>\n<p>Noting a 17 percent  increase in the  participation of buyers and other delegates, tourism  officials and Government  leaders agreed that the event was an important  step forward in bringing tourist  dollars back to the Caribbean and the  Caribbean Hotel and Tourism Assn. which  helped sponsor the two-day  event.<\/p>\n<p>While buyers came from many  parts of the world,  Caribbean officials were delighted with the  first-time presence of 11 buyers from  the former Soviet Union. The  Russian buyers joined in discussions and workshops  with buyers in other  countries in trying to make a Caribbean travel destination  more  user-friendly to everyone involved &#8212; hotel owners, visitors, government   officials, airline employees and related services and industries.<\/p>\n<p>Here are some of the statistics from the  meeting:\u00a0 (see original article link\u00a0 below)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 30th anniversary of the Caribbean Marketplace, recently held at the Atlantis Resort in Paradise Island, Bahamas, included an increased number of buyers and other delegates.<\/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":[153,100,101],"class_list":["post-17662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","tag-business-2","tag-caribbean-2","tag-trade"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17662","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=17662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17662\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}