{"id":52640,"date":"2011-07-05T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-07-05T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/pages\/making-golf-carts-in-the-dr\/"},"modified":"2011-07-05T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-07-05T00:00:00","slug":"making-golf-carts-in-the-dr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2011\/07\/05\/making-golf-carts-in-the-dr\/","title":{"rendered":"Making golf carts in the DR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The high cost of importing golf carts and lightweight tourist transport vehicles, primarily for inter-resort transportation, got entrepreneur Pablo Pineiro of Grupo Pineiro (of Bahia Principe all-inclusive hotels) thinking it made sense to manufacture them locally. The company plans to invest US$20 million in the new manufacturing plant. The new factory would employ around 400 people, making it a plus for the local economy. <\/p>\n<p>Grupo Pineiro says that it already employs 10,000 people in its local hotels. <\/p>\n<p>The new tourism vehicles would be sold to all hotel companies locally and could also be exported. <\/p>\n<p>Pineiro says that in a first phase they would manufacture seven different models of the Turiscar. See a photo here: www.arecoa.com\/index.php\/Transportes\/transporte-turistico-nueva-apuesta-del-grupo-pinero.html<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The high cost of importing golf carts and lightweight tourist transport vehicles, primarily for inter-resort transportation, got entrepreneur Pablo Pineiro of Grupo Pineiro (of Bahia Principe all-inclusive hotels) thinking it made sense to manufacture them locally. The company plans to invest US$20 million in the new manufacturing plant. The new factory would employ around 400 &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2011\/07\/05\/making-golf-carts-in-the-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":[20,243,3,15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52640"}],"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=52640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52640\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}