{"id":241944,"date":"2003-04-17T01:00:08","date_gmt":"2003-04-17T05:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2003\/04\/taking-the-tack-out-of-tourism"},"modified":"2003-04-17T01:00:08","modified_gmt":"2003-04-17T05:00:08","slug":"taking-the-tack-out-of-tourism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2003\/04\/taking-the-tack-out-of-tourism","title":{"rendered":"Taking The &#8216;Tack&#8217; Out Of Tourism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Time to get rid of that &#8220;tacky tourism,&#8221; according to Tourism Minister Obie Wilchcombe, but he&#8217;s been saying that for some months. <\/P><\/p>\n<p><P>Now it&#8217;s time for action instead of more talk. Sophisticated tourists expect a clean and safe environment, a wide variety of activities available any time of day, five-star hotels and service. <\/P><\/p>\n<p><P>The proximity of The Bahamas to the U.S. has always done well for us, particularly when people want to get away but are afraid to travel far. <\/P><\/p>\n<p><P>Without that fear factor, the harder it will be to keep our product attractive. Other countries are finding innovative &#8220;hooks&#8221; to appeal to targeted groups, and The Bahamas could do the same thing. <\/P><\/p>\n<p><P>However, it is important to remember that despite all the advertising that could lure visitors, nothing beats five-star treatment. <\/P><\/p>\n<p><P>Bad news travels fast, good news waits, to modernise John Milton. <\/P><\/p>\n<p><P><B>Editorial, The Nassau Guardian<\/B><\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>it is important to remember that despite all the advertising that could lure visitors, nothing beats five-star treatment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-241944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241944","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241944\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}