{"id":664,"date":"2010-08-10T09:08:07","date_gmt":"2010-08-10T13:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=664"},"modified":"2010-08-10T09:09:56","modified_gmt":"2010-08-10T13:09:56","slug":"hidden-gems-video-touts-culture-of-jamaica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2010\/08\/hidden-gems-video-touts-culture-of-jamaica","title":{"rendered":"Hidden Gems Video Touts Culture of Jamaica"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-666 alignleft\" style=\"margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px;\" title=\"jamaica-hidden-gems\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/jamaica-hidden-gems-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/jamaica-hidden-gems-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/jamaica-hidden-gems.jpg 280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/>The &#8220;Hidden Gems of Jamaica&#8221; video is part of a $10 million marketing campaign designed to improve Jamaica\u2019s image. The video was released after the recent gang shootings and curfews in west Kingston. It focuses on attractions in and around the tourist-heavy areas of Montego Bay, Negril and Ocho Rios.<\/p>\n<p>The video, created by travel expert Peter Greenberg, is Jamaica&#8217;s latest entry in its wide range of promotions and marketing techniques showcases attractions on the island designed to lure vacationers out of the resorts and into the island life and culture.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There\u2019s a lot of stuff here that most visitors don\u2019t know about it,&#8221; said travel expert Peter Greenberg, who narrated the video. &#8220;There\u2019s nothing wrong at all [with] spending an afternoon at the hotel pool or beach, but to really experience Jamaica you have to eat where the locals eat, get out on the water, into the great houses, the vendors\u2019 stalls, the golf courses and museums.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>[youtube]dDf9ZD4Xh4A[\/youtube]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The &#8220;Hidden Gems of Jamaica&#8221; video, part of a $10 million marketing campaign designed to improve Jamaica\u2019s image, debuted following the recent gang shootings and curfews in west Kingston.<\/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":[58,33],"class_list":["post-664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel","tag-jamaica","tag-tourism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664","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=664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}