{"id":52864,"date":"2012-06-05T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-06-05T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/pages\/expedia-says-dominican-vacations-lead\/"},"modified":"2012-06-05T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-06-05T00:00:00","slug":"expedia-says-dominican-vacations-lead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2012\/06\/05\/expedia-says-dominican-vacations-lead\/","title":{"rendered":"Expedia says Dominican vacations lead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Expedia, the leading online booking engine, says the DR is becoming more and more popular with US travelers. The company says that US travel is up 30%, making the Dominican Republic the second most popular destination for Americans to travel in Latin America and the Caribbean. The Dominican Republic is one of the best-served destinations in the Americas. Its Punta Cana International Airport has the largest variety of flights of any airport in the Caribbean. Miriam Hernandez says that attractive room rates, which &#8220;have remained mostly flat,&#8221; make it one of the best deals for getting to the beach this summer. <\/p>\n<p>A recent Expedia Flip Flop report shows that beach travel is the number one choice of trip for Americans. <\/p>\n<p>According to Expedia, their travelers usually book their trips to the DR 52 days in advance and come from New York, Miami, Boston, Philadelphia or Chicago. <\/p>\n<p>66% will book travel for two adults, 14% will travel with children. <\/p>\n<p>Punta Cana is the most popular booking destination, with more than 50% of all bookings. Santo Domingo draws roughly 13% of the bookings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Expedia, the leading online booking engine, says the DR is becoming more and more popular with US travelers. The company says that US travel is up 30%, making the Dominican Republic the second most popular destination for Americans to travel in Latin America and the Caribbean. The Dominican Republic is one of the best-served destinations &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2012\/06\/05\/expedia-says-dominican-vacations-lead\/\" 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":[244,15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52864"}],"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=52864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52864\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}