{"id":52965,"date":"2012-11-13T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-11-13T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/pages\/lonely-planet-chooses-dr-in-its-best-in-travel-2013-list\/"},"modified":"2012-11-13T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-11-13T00:00:00","slug":"lonely-planet-chooses-dr-in-its-best-in-travel-2013-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2012\/11\/13\/lonely-planet-chooses-dr-in-its-best-in-travel-2013-list\/","title":{"rendered":"Lonely Planet chooses DR in its Best in Travel 2013 list"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Influential Lonely Planet travel guide publisher has included the Dominican Republic in their Best in Travel 2013 list. The editors describe the Dominican Republic as &#8220;The Caribbean&#8217;s &#8216;Next Big Thing&#8221; and say it is best for: activities, value for money and events. Lonely Planet writes: &#8220;In the first quarter of 2012 the Dominican Republic saw an 8.4% increase in tourism. With more airlines offering stops to the country&#8217;s eight international airports, as well as cruise ships adding the DR as a major port of call, more people are escaping to the land of sun, sand, and surf comparable to anywhere else in the Caribbean.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Other countries listed are Sri Lanka, Montenegro, South Korea, Ecuador, Slovakia, Solomon Islands, Iceland, Turkey and Madagascar. <\/p>\n<p>www.lonelyplanet.com\/themes\/best-in-travel-2013\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Influential Lonely Planet travel guide publisher has included the Dominican Republic in their Best in Travel 2013 list. The editors describe the Dominican Republic as &#8220;The Caribbean&#8217;s &#8216;Next Big Thing&#8221; and say it is best for: activities, value for money and events. Lonely Planet writes: &#8220;In the first quarter of 2012 the Dominican Republic saw &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2012\/11\/13\/lonely-planet-chooses-dr-in-its-best-in-travel-2013-list\/\" 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\/52965"}],"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=52965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52965\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}