{"id":42945,"date":"2013-11-13T23:42:22","date_gmt":"2013-11-14T04:42:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/target\/hawaiis-new-gay-marriage-law-expected-to-boost-tourism-by-217-million"},"modified":"2013-11-13T23:42:22","modified_gmt":"2013-11-14T04:42:22","slug":"new-gay-marriage-law-expected-to-boost-tourism-by-217-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2013\/11\/new-gay-marriage-law-expected-to-boost-tourism-by-217-million","title":{"rendered":"New Gay Marriage Law Expected to Boost Tourism by $217 Million"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-42946\" title=\"New Gay Marriage Law\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/cD03MGVkNTVmYWU4MzZjZjg0MjhjOWE0ODNhYzY3MmU4NSZnPTliYmIyNDAxMGQ1OGJhNTJiNzAwODI2MTY0ODllZTAw-1280x960-250x187.jpeg\" alt=\"New Gay Marriage Law\" width=\"250\" height=\"187\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Hawaii&#8217;s fast-paced tourism growth has slowed over the last year, but a new law passing gay marriage opens the islands up to an entirely new group of visitors.<\/p>\n<p>Hawaii Gov. Neil Abercrombie plans to sign a gay marriage bill into law during an invitation-only ceremony at theHawaii Convention Center.<\/p>\n<p>The signing comes the day after the state Senate passed the bill on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The measure will allow thousands of gay couples living in Hawaii and even more tourists to marry in the state starting Dec. 2.<\/p>\n<p>An estimate from a University of Hawaiiresearcher says gay marriage will boost tourism by $217 million over the next three years.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps similar legislation could boost the economy here in The Bahamas.<\/p>\n<p id=\"mct-ai-attriblink\"><a href=\"http:\/\/skift.com\/2013\/11\/13\/hawaiis-new-gay-marriage-law-expected-to-boost-tourism-by-217-million\/\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to read the complete article at skift.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new law passing gay marriage opens the islands up to an entirely new group of visitors.  Researcher says gay marriage will boost tourism by $217 million over the next three years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":42946,"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":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42945","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\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42945\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}