{"id":8513,"date":"2011-05-11T22:11:01","date_gmt":"2011-05-12T02:11:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=8513"},"modified":"2011-05-11T22:11:01","modified_gmt":"2011-05-12T02:11:01","slug":"visitor-satisfaction-up-well-sort-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2011\/05\/visitor-satisfaction-up-well-sort-of","title":{"rendered":"Visitor Satisfaction Up, Well Sort Of"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Visitors to The Bahamas who are very likely to recommend the  destination to others are reporting greater visitor satisfaction in 2010  compared to five years earlier.<\/p>\n<p>Sounds good but you know the old saying, &#8220;figures lie and liars figure.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The information, released by the Ministry of Tourism yesterday, was  based on data gathered from exit surveys.<\/p>\n<p>But the data released lacked what may be a critical bit of information needed  to understand the whole picture of satisfaction levels.\u00a0 It did not  report on the actual increase or decrease in the percentage of stopovers  who would recommend this destination to others.<\/p>\n<p>The real question to ask is&#8230;\u00a0 are a greater percentage of visitors likely to  recommend the Bahamas as a vacation destination?\u00a0 The Ministry of Tourism has refused to supply the answer to that question.\u00a0 So, we&#8217;ll take that as a &#8220;no&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Visitors who say they would recommend the Bahamas as a vacation destination are reporting a greater degree of satisfaction.  Unfortunately, that is a very small percentage of total visitors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"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":[33],"class_list":["post-8513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel","tag-tourism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8513","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\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8513\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}