{"id":23228,"date":"2012-06-29T09:14:14","date_gmt":"2012-06-29T13:14:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=23228"},"modified":"2012-06-29T09:14:14","modified_gmt":"2012-06-29T13:14:14","slug":"tourism-promotion-benefitted-bahamas-hotels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2012\/06\/tourism-promotion-benefitted-bahamas-hotels","title":{"rendered":"Tourism Promotion Benefitted Bahamas Hotels"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_23229\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-23229\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-23229\" title=\"bahamas-tourism\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/bahamas-tourism.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/bahamas-tourism.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/bahamas-tourism-150x112.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-23229\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bahamas tourism<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Bahamas has generated &#8220;over 250,000 room nights&#8221; for the Nassau\/Paradise Island destination alone during the past year via an $18 million investment in airfare credit promotions, the director-general of tourism saying he was &#8220;bullish&#8221; on the industry&#8217;s outlook.<\/p>\n<p>Confirming that the Ministry of Tourism and Nassau\/Paradise Island Promotion Board had agreed to reinstate the airfare credit to stimulate fall and winter 2012 bookings, David Johnson told Tribune Business the joint public\/private sector promotion had &#8220;made huge difference&#8221; to hotels throughout the Bahamas.<\/p>\n<p>The Bahamian tourism industry was seeing stopover arrivals growth &#8220;every month&#8221; in 2012 compared to last year, Mr Johnson added, and was still on track to record an average monthly 5-7 per cent growth for the year to-end August.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The director-general of tourism said the $18 million investment in airfare credit promotions provided a boost to hotels throughout the Bahamas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"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":[25,33,73],"class_list":["post-23228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","tag-hotels","tag-tourism","tag-travel-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23228","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\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23228\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}