{"id":50876,"date":"2003-08-05T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2003-08-05T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/pages\/punta-cana-is-most-popular-destination\/"},"modified":"2003-08-05T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2003-08-05T00:00:00","slug":"punta-cana-is-most-popular-destination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2003\/08\/05\/punta-cana-is-most-popular-destination\/","title":{"rendered":"Punta Cana is most popular destination"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Punta Cana is by far the most popular tourist destination in the Dominican Republic, with 47% of all arrivals to the Dominican Republic choosing the East Coast hotels. This compares to the 19% who chose Puerto<br \/>\nPlata on the North Coast and 10% who opted for the La Romana\/Bayahibe airports en route to the La Romana, Bayahibe or Juan Dolio hotels. Santo Domingo?s Las Americas International Airport received 21% of the traffic, with those arriving there most<br \/>\nusually bound for Santo Domingo, Boca Chica or Juan Dolio destinations.<br \/>\nAccording to the Central Bank statistics, traffic to the Punta Cana International Airport (659,447 tourist arrivals) was up 36% this year, La Romana (142,684 tourist arrivals) saw a 31% gain, and Puerto Plata (268,943 tourist arrivals) increased 6%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Punta Cana is by far the most popular tourist destination in the Dominican Republic, with 47% of all arrivals to the Dominican Republic choosing the East Coast hotels. This compares to the 19% who chose Puerto Plata on the North Coast and 10% who opted for the La Romana\/Bayahibe airports en route to the La &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2003\/08\/05\/punta-cana-is-most-popular-destination\/\" 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":[235,15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50876"}],"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=50876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50876\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}