{"id":8648,"date":"2011-05-17T09:25:09","date_gmt":"2011-05-17T13:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=8648"},"modified":"2011-05-17T09:25:09","modified_gmt":"2011-05-17T13:25:09","slug":"tourism-fastest-way-to-generate-jobs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2011\/05\/tourism-fastest-way-to-generate-jobs","title":{"rendered":"Tourism Fastest Way To Generate Jobs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Caribbean hotel industry has weathered the storm of one of the worst  global economic downturns in history and now enjoys the benefits of  pent-up demand for warm-weather vacations, according to Josef Forstmayr,  president of the Caribbean Hotel and Tourism Association.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking  at the 15th Annual Caribbean Hotel &amp; Tourism Investment Conference  last week in Montego Bay, Forstmayr pointed out that challenges remain,  \u201cand we must remain vigilant in our job to protect and preserve our  industry.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Challenges facing the Caribbean region include  improved airlift, along with rising fuel costs, increased airport user  fees and taxes. \u201cAs airfares rise, vacations become more costly or  sometimes even result in reduced services,\u201d Forstmayr said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Caribbean hotel industry has weathered the storm of one of the worst global economic downturns in history and now enjoys the benefits of pent-up demand for warm-weather vacations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"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":[100,72,33],"class_list":["post-8648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel","tag-caribbean-2","tag-employment","tag-tourism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8648","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=8648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8648\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}