{"id":40050,"date":"2013-09-27T09:49:35","date_gmt":"2013-09-27T13:49:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=40050"},"modified":"2013-09-27T09:49:35","modified_gmt":"2013-09-27T13:49:35","slug":"abaco-tourism-22-below-peak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2013\/09\/abaco-tourism-22-below-peak","title":{"rendered":"Abaco Tourism 22% Below Peak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-597 alignnone\" title=\"Abaco, Bahamas\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/abaco_island.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"485\" height=\"364\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/abaco_island.jpg 485w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/abaco_island-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/abaco_island-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 485px) 100vw, 485px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Abaco\u2019s 87,000 stopover visitors in 2012 were down 22 per cent from their pre-recession high, a senior tourism official revealing that negotiations were being held with a major US carrier to provide jet service beyond Miami and help fuel a turnaround.<\/p>\n<p>David Johnson, the Ministry of Tourism\u2019s director-generalm, told the Abaco Business Outlook conference that a new jet service between the Abacos and the US was no more than a season away.<\/p>\n<p>He described Abaco as having the most diversified tourism offering and greatest potential for further economic growth in the Bahamas.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Abacos attracted some 95,000 stopover visitors in 2003, and by 2012 it had slipped to some 87,000 stopover visitors,\u201d Mr Johnson said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last year, stopover visitors to Abaco dropped 22 per cent below the island&#8217;s 2007 peak of 111,000 visitors.<\/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":[103,59,33],"class_list":["post-40050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel","tag-abaco","tag-islands","tag-tourism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40050","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=40050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40050\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}