{"id":248769,"date":"2006-02-09T10:21:00","date_gmt":"2006-02-09T15:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2006\/02\/tourism-meets-technology"},"modified":"2006-02-09T10:21:00","modified_gmt":"2006-02-09T15:21:00","slug":"tourism-meets-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2006\/02\/tourism-meets-technology","title":{"rendered":"Tourism Meets Technology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Ministry of Tourism released some fairly impressive tourism figures for 2005, and where technology meets tourism, it is anticipated that the figures moving forward would be even more impressive. <\/p>\n<p>The Bahamas is seeking to become the world&#8217;s leading practitioner of outstanding tourism technology management, and is looking to beat out its Caribbean competition which has been slow to unite the sectors of tourism and technology according to a report on Tourism Today.<\/p>\n<p>According to the televised report, &#8220;The advent of the Internet has revolutionised communication systems globally, and nowhere is this more evident than in the travel industry,&#8221; said a spokesperson. <\/p>\n<p>It was reported that the Ministry of Tourism (MOT) was bridging tourism and technology in several ways. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;New technology is being used to track visitor experience, expenditure, and satisfaction; to develop an industry of knowledgeable experts, and to control more of the processes of booking and travel business in the destination,&#8221; according to the report. <\/p>\n<p>The MOT also said late last year that it was establishing more systems following its membership in the World Tourism Organisation to give a more accurate picture of how the tourism industry was performing.<\/p>\n<p><small>By BARRY WILLIAMS, Nassau Guardian Staff Reporter<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The advent of the Internet has revolutionised communication systems globally, and nowhere is this more evident than in the travel industry.<\/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-248769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248769","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=248769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248769\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}