{"id":82765,"date":"2014-10-09T00:01:40","date_gmt":"2014-10-09T04:01:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=82765"},"modified":"2014-10-06T09:27:41","modified_gmt":"2014-10-06T13:27:41","slug":"sun-sand-sea-is-stale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2014\/10\/sun-sand-sea-is-stale","title":{"rendered":"Sun, Sand &#038; Sea Is Stale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-82748\" alt=\"pam-burnside\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/pam-burnside.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" \/>I refer to the Business Section of the Nassau Guardian\u2019s October 3rd edition in which the headline \u201cForget beaches, says Vasser: Market your food\u201d was a welcomed read.<\/p>\n<p>At the Bahamas Business Outlook at the beginning for the year, Patricia Glinton-Meicholas and I presented papers relating to the goals of our community organization, \u201cCreative Nassau\u201d (www.creativenassau.com) in which we extolled the importance of shifting the country\u2019s tourism thrust from one of sun, sand and sea, to one of \u201cCultural Tourism\u201d which invites visitors to experience the country\u2019s Art, Culture and Heritage with the country\u2019s inhabitants. This is the tourism model of the future and the one on which we should focus our attention.<\/p>\n<p>Coming from the mouth of a foreigner, Jeffrey Vasser, the CEO of the Caribbean Hotel and Tourism Association, hopefully the powers-that-be will take note and adjust accordingly, and I trust that this month\u2019s Bahamian Culinary Festival will make significant headway towards this goal!<\/p>\n<p>Pam Burnside<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I refer to the Business Section of the Nassau Guardian\u2019s October 3rd edition in which the headline \u201cForget beaches, says Vasser: Market your food\u201d was a welcomed read. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":74,"featured_media":82748,"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":[14],"tags":[104,33],"class_list":["post-82765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-opinions","tag-culture","tag-tourism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82765","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\/74"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82765\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}