{"id":28473,"date":"2012-11-21T21:03:53","date_gmt":"2012-11-22T02:03:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=28473"},"modified":"2012-11-21T21:04:07","modified_gmt":"2012-11-22T02:04:07","slug":"bha-reveals-energy-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2012\/11\/bha-reveals-energy-project","title":{"rendered":"BHA Reveals Energy Project"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_15904\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15904\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-15904\" title=\"bha-logo\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/bha-logo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/bha-logo.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/bha-logo-150x112.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-15904\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bahamas Hotel and Tourism Association<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Bahamas is poised to launch an energy efficient project whereby several hotels receive &#8220;substantial financial support&#8221; to institute key recommendations.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Bahamas Hotel Association (BHA), arrangements for the initiative are nearly concluded. The project involves participation from the Ministry of Tourism, with support from the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) through the Caribbean Tourism Organization and the Caribbean Hotel and Tourism Association.<\/p>\n<p>The program is broad in focus &#8211; including hotels in Jamaica and Barbados as well &#8211; and extremely significant to the future of the region&#8217;s tourism economy. Tourism stakeholders from both the public and private sector agree that energy efficiency is perhaps the single most important factor to the long-term health of the tourism industry.<\/p>\n<p>As part of the Energy Efficiency Project, at least 30 hotels in The Bahamas will be given detailed energy audits.<\/p>\n<p>The project includes information on cost saving measures that can be put in place at little to no expense, as well as changes with big impact but minimal investment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bahamas Hotel Association (BHA) revealed that an energy efficient project is set to be launched whereby several hotels will receive &#8220;substantial financial support&#8221; to institute key recommendations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"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":[153,202,76,25,33,73,212],"class_list":["post-28473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","tag-business-2","tag-energy","tag-environment-2","tag-hotels","tag-tourism","tag-travel-2","tag-utilities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28473","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\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28473\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}