{"id":44190,"date":"1999-01-14T01:43:56","date_gmt":"1999-01-14T01:43:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/pages\/drop-in-tourists-arriving-via-puerto-plata\/"},"modified":"1999-01-14T01:43:56","modified_gmt":"1999-01-14T01:43:56","slug":"drop-in-tourists-arriving-via-puerto-plata","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/1999\/01\/14\/drop-in-tourists-arriving-via-puerto-plata\/","title":{"rendered":"Drop in tourists arriving via Puerto Plata"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tourism Minister F?lix Jim?nez said yesterday that the number of tourists arriving in the DR via Puerto Plata\/Sosua&#146;s Gregorio Luper?n International Airport fell in 1998. According to Ministry figures, a record 739,325 tourists came through the airport in 1997, but in 1998 only 666,353. He noted, however, that in the 1990-1997 tourist traffic through the airport rose at an annual average of 9.9%, higher than the national average of 8.2%. Jim?nez attributed the 1998 drop to rumors in the U.K. about food safety problems in Dominican hotels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tourism Minister F?lix Jim?nez said yesterday that the number of tourists arriving in the DR via Puerto Plata\/Sosua&#146;s Gregorio Luper?n International Airport fell in 1998. According to Ministry figures, a record 739,325 tourists came through the airport in 1997, but in 1998 only 666,353. He noted, however, that in the 1990-1997 tourist traffic through the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/1999\/01\/14\/drop-in-tourists-arriving-via-puerto-plata\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44190"}],"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=44190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44190\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}