{"id":31298,"date":"2013-02-07T09:21:54","date_gmt":"2013-02-07T14:21:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=31298"},"modified":"2013-02-07T09:21:54","modified_gmt":"2013-02-07T14:21:54","slug":"bahamas-seeking-tourist-growth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2013\/02\/bahamas-seeking-tourist-growth","title":{"rendered":"Bahamas Seeking Tourist Growth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2013\/02\/bahamas-seeking-tourist-growth-31298.html\/tourism-2\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-31299\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-31299\" title=\"tourism\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/tourism.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/tourism.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/tourism-150x112.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a>The Bahamas&#8217; government is expecting to see a 5-6% rise in tourist arrivals this year, after recording a similar increase in 2012.<\/p>\n<p>This puts the island chain on target to attract more than 6m visitors in 2013, up from around 5.8m last year, Tribune 242 reports.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Things are looking better in the US economy, so that&#8217;s a good sign,&#8217; the Ministry of Tourism&#8217;s senior director of research and statistics Gary Young told the news provider. &#8216;The numbers are looking strong.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>As well as plenty of sunshine and sandy beaches, those staying at cheap hotels on one of the country&#8217;s 3,000 islands can enjoy a wide range of attractions.<\/p>\n<p>These include a snorkelling trip to Thunderball Grotto, named after the James Bond movie that was filmed in the Bahamas, a visit to the Atlantis Aquarium in Nassau and enjoy the view from the top of Hope Town Lighthouse on Great Abaco Island.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #888888;\">Source: Opodo Travel News<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bahamas&#8217; government is expecting to see a 5-6% rise in tourist arrivals this year, after recording a similar increase in 2012.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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":[499,33],"class_list":["post-31298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel","tag-bahamas","tag-tourism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31298","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31298\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}