{"id":50888,"date":"2003-08-19T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2003-08-19T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/pages\/diving-and-snorkelling\/"},"modified":"2003-08-19T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2003-08-19T00:00:00","slug":"diving-and-snorkelling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2003\/08\/19\/diving-and-snorkelling\/","title":{"rendered":"Diving and snorkelling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Sub-Ministry for Coastal and Marine Resources, a division of the Environment<br \/>\nMinistry, has initiated a study in B?varo to determine the importance of the<br \/>\npotential role the dive industry can play in Dominican tourism. According to the<br \/>\nstory in El Caribe, the average tourist pays US$160 for the privilege of diving<br \/>\noff the coasts of B?varo. The prospect of adding scuba diving and snorkeling to<br \/>\nthe list of tourist attractions of the Dominican Republic is enticing to the<br \/>\nMinistry of Tourism. The NGO B?varo Refound and local dive shops are cooperating<br \/>\nwith the government to develop the study on the practicability of diving in the<br \/>\narea, with the selected areas to be protected from damage by the dive operators.<br \/>\nIn all, 13 areas are being considered.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Sub-Ministry for Coastal and Marine Resources, a division of the Environment Ministry, has initiated a study in B?varo to determine the importance of the potential role the dive industry can play in Dominican tourism. According to the story in El Caribe, the average tourist pays US$160 for the privilege of diving off the coasts &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2003\/08\/19\/diving-and-snorkelling\/\" 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\/50888"}],"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=50888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50888\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}