{"id":246454,"date":"2005-01-17T11:42:15","date_gmt":"2005-01-17T16:42:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2005\/01\/bahamas-is-fourth-most-reliant-on-tourism-for-jobs"},"modified":"2005-01-17T11:42:15","modified_gmt":"2005-01-17T16:42:15","slug":"bahamas-is-fourth-most-reliant-on-tourism-for-jobs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2005\/01\/bahamas-is-fourth-most-reliant-on-tourism-for-jobs","title":{"rendered":"Bahamas Is Fourth Most Reliant On Tourism For Jobs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Bahamas is the world&#8217;s ninth most expensive destination as measured by average nightly hotel room prices, with its workforce the fourth most reliant in the world on tourism to provide them with their jobs.<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\nThe World Travel and Tourism Council&#8217;s (WTTC) annual travel and tourism competitiveness monitor, published at the end of last year, said the Bahamas&#8217; hotel price index, measured in US dollars, of $156.39, placed it as the ninth most expensive destination in the world.<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\nThe Bahamas was ranked 27th by the WTTC out of all the countries surveyed for its tourism infrastructure; 37th for its openness to tourism; 59th for its deployment of technology in its tourism industry; 61st on human resources; 69th on social issues and 91st on the environment.<br \/>\n<P><B>Source: Neil Hartnell, The Tribune<\/B><\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The World Travel and Tourism Council&#8217;s (WTTC) annual travel and tourism competitiveness monitor ranks the Bahamas with other leading destinations.<\/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":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-246454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246454","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=246454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246454\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}