{"id":124719,"date":"2019-04-02T13:02:45","date_gmt":"2019-04-02T13:02:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dr1.do\/?p=124719"},"modified":"2019-04-02T15:34:08","modified_gmt":"2019-04-02T15:34:08","slug":"date-celebrates-dominican-leadership-positioning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2019\/04\/02\/date-celebrates-dominican-leadership-positioning\/","title":{"rendered":"DATE celebrates Dominican leadership positioning"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"492\" src=\"https:\/\/dr1.do\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/DATE-MITUR-1024x492.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-124785\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>During the celebration of the Dominican Annual Travel Exchange in Punta Cana at the Punta Cana Blue Mall from 26-28 March 2019, the Ministry of Tourism honored international and local organizations for making significant contributions to the development of Dominican tourism. Tourism Minister Javier Garc\u00eda noted during the opening that the Dominican Republic outpaces the global average of annual tourist arrivals, and the country is continuing to see an upward trend in tourism. Around 150 of the country\u2019s leading tourism suppliers participated at the business-matching event. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tourism Minister Francisco Javier Garc\u00eda recognized the successes and future of Dominican Republic\u2019s thriving tourism industry. The DATE Awards followed the opening ceremony. Winners of DATE Awards include the following:<br>\nBest Destination Management Company\u2014Meeting Point Dominicana<br>\nBest Tour Operator\u2014Sunwing Travel Group<br>\nBest Online Travel Agency\u2014Hotelbeds<br>\nBest Airline\u2014JetBlue Airways Corporation<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2 April 2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During the celebration of the Dominican Annual Travel Exchange in Punta Cana at the Punta Cana Blue Mall from 26-28 March 2019, the Ministry of Tourism honored international and local organizations for making significant contributions to the development of Dominican tourism. Tourism Minister Javier Garc\u00eda noted during the opening that the Dominican Republic outpaces the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2019\/04\/02\/date-celebrates-dominican-leadership-positioning\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[155,15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124719"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124719"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124719\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":124791,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124719\/revisions\/124791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}