{"id":8400,"date":"2011-05-09T08:20:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-09T12:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=8400"},"modified":"2011-05-09T08:40:00","modified_gmt":"2011-05-09T12:40:00","slug":"gradual-recovery-for-caribbean-tourism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2011\/05\/gradual-recovery-for-caribbean-tourism","title":{"rendered":"Gradual Recovery For Caribbean Tourism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>THE INTERNATIONAL Monetary Fund (IMF) says that the Caribbean is beginning to turn the corner after a &#8220;long and deep recession&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>In its latest &#8216;Regional Economic Outlook&#8217;, the Washington-based financial institution said weak external demand and high public debt levels have held back economic activity in much of the region for the last two years, &#8220;which has also been adversely affected by natural disasters&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>It said tourism is &#8220;recovering gradually&#8221;, with The Bahamas, Barbados, the Dominican Republic, and Jamaica observing a &#8220;faster and earlier pickup in tourist arrivals&#8221; than the islands of the Eastern Caribbean Currency Union.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The International Monetary Fund (IMF) says that the Caribbean is beginning to turn the corner after a &#8220;long and deep recession&#8221;.<\/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":[3],"tags":[100,29,98,33],"class_list":["post-8400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","tag-caribbean-2","tag-economy","tag-financial","tag-tourism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8400","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=8400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8400\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}