{"id":52442,"date":"2010-08-10T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-10T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/pages\/budget-travel-readers-vote-for-dr\/"},"modified":"2010-08-10T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-08-10T00:00:00","slug":"budget-travel-readers-vote-for-dr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2010\/08\/10\/budget-travel-readers-vote-for-dr\/","title":{"rendered":"Budget Travel readers vote for DR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over 160,000 readers of Budget Travel magazine voted the Dominican Republic as the best Value Destination. Budget Travel&#8217;s Editor in Chief, Nina Willdorf, announced on NBC&#8217;s The Today Show on 29 July that the DR won the Readers Choice Award. The magazine&#8217;s readers recognized the DR as an affordable and easily-accessible destination for US travelers. <\/p>\n<p>Nina Willdorf, Budget Travel editor, noted, &#8220;Budget Travel readers are always looking for affordable, exotic vacation ideas and the DR was the clear front-runner in the category for best value destination. The DR is an easy island escape that&#8217;s close to home.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;With eight international airports, the DR is an easy, direct flight from most major US gateways. With sophisticated cities, resort communities and charming towns and villages in a country with warm, friendly people, the DR is receiving accolades from many top travel organizations as a must-see destination,&#8221; Deputy Minister of International Promotion Magaly Toribio explains.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over 160,000 readers of Budget Travel magazine voted the Dominican Republic as the best Value Destination. Budget Travel&#8217;s Editor in Chief, Nina Willdorf, announced on NBC&#8217;s The Today Show on 29 July that the DR won the Readers Choice Award. The magazine&#8217;s readers recognized the DR as an affordable and easily-accessible destination for US travelers. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2010\/08\/10\/budget-travel-readers-vote-for-dr\/\" 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":[242,15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52442"}],"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=52442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52442\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}