{"id":26798,"date":"2012-10-10T08:19:40","date_gmt":"2012-10-10T12:19:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=26798"},"modified":"2012-10-10T14:40:50","modified_gmt":"2012-10-10T18:40:50","slug":"bitter-merchants-in-wake-of-caribbean-cruises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2012\/10\/bitter-merchants-in-wake-of-caribbean-cruises","title":{"rendered":"Bitter Merchants In Wake Of Caribbean Cruises"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-26801\" title=\"caribbean-cruise-vendors\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/caribbean-cruise-vendors.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"188\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/caribbean-cruise-vendors.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/caribbean-cruise-vendors-150x112.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/>FALMOUTH, Jamaica (AP) &#8211;<\/em> <\/span>Tourists emerge by the hundreds from a towering, 16-deck megaship docked at the Caribbean&#8217;s newest cruise port. They squint in the glare of the Jamaican sun, peer curiously at a gaggle of locals beyond a wrought-iron fence and then roar out of town on a procession of air-conditioned tour buses.<\/p>\n<p>Few stop to buy T-shirts, wooden figurines or beach towels from the dozens of merchants lining the road outside the fence, or visit the colonial-era buildings that dot the town. Not many even venture beyond the terminal&#8217;s gates, unless it&#8217;s in one of the buses that whisk them past increasingly disgruntled vendors and taxi drivers.<\/p>\n<p>In the Bahamas, Disney Cruise Line ships stop at the company&#8217;s own private island, dubbed Castaway Cay, where locals work as massage therapists, bartenders and drivers and supplies are brought in by the ships.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cruise ship passengers are spending less with merchants at caribbean destinations, leaving many locals disgruntled.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"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":[9],"tags":[111,73],"class_list":["post-26798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel","tag-cruise","tag-travel-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26798","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\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26798\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}