{"id":18716,"date":"2008-03-07T01:43:56","date_gmt":"2008-03-07T01:43:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/pages\/saving-puerto-plata\/"},"modified":"2008-03-07T01:43:56","modified_gmt":"2008-03-07T01:43:56","slug":"saving-puerto-plata","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2008\/03\/07\/saving-puerto-plata\/","title":{"rendered":"Saving Puerto Plata"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Tourism Minister Felix Jimenez says that the US$150 million investment in Puerto Plata in the last three years has rescued the northern region&#8217;s coasts from neglect. According to the Minister, Puerto Plata will be the Caribbean&#8217;s premier tourism destination in years to come. Jimenez made his comments during a press conference at the ITB fair in Germany. The DR is this year&#8217;s special partner country at the fair. The Minister added that availability of rooms in Puerto Plata has reached 16,000. Speaking on the DR&#8217;s goals in the future Jimenez highlighted the need to reconnect with European tourists, who make up 30% of the total tourist flow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tourism Minister Felix Jimenez says that the US$150 million investment in Puerto Plata in the last three years has rescued the northern region&#8217;s coasts from neglect. According to the Minister, Puerto Plata will be the Caribbean&#8217;s premier tourism destination in years to come. Jimenez made his comments during a press conference at the ITB fair &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2008\/03\/07\/saving-puerto-plata\/\" 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":[227,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18716"}],"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=18716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18716\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}