{"id":54379,"date":"2014-05-20T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-05-20T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/pages\/punta-cana-is-astas-5th-top-summer-hot-spot\/"},"modified":"2014-05-20T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2014-05-20T00:00:00","slug":"punta-cana-is-astas-5th-top-summer-hot-spot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2014\/05\/20\/punta-cana-is-astas-5th-top-summer-hot-spot\/","title":{"rendered":"Punta Cana is ASTA&#8217;s 5th top summer hot spot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Punta Cana is ranked 5th in the Top Ten International Summer Hot Spots for the American Society of Travel Agents (ASTA). The destination was chosen for its combination of a great beach, rest and relaxation possible at the resorts that also offer golf and many other activities and excursions within the 2.5-hour range making this one of the better vacation destinations in the world. <\/p>\n<p>The ASTA ranking for summer 2014 is:<\/p>\n<p>London (24%)<\/p>\n<p>Rome (22%)<\/p>\n<p>Paris (21%)<\/p>\n<p>Cancun (14%)<\/p>\n<p>Punta Cana (7%)<\/p>\n<p>Barcelona (3%)<\/p>\n<p>Amsterdam (2%)<\/p>\n<p>Madrid (2%)<\/p>\n<p>Montego Bay (2%)<\/p>\n<p>Survey data was collected through the 2014 ASTA Research Family. The ASTA Research Family is comprised of a representative sample of ASTA member travel agency owners and managers. The Research Family reflects ASTA members in key agency demographics including sales volume, leisure\/business mix, number of part-time and full-time employees and geographic location. <\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.asta.org\/files\/pdf\/ASTAHotSpots.pdf<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Punta Cana is ranked 5th in the Top Ten International Summer Hot Spots for the American Society of Travel Agents (ASTA). The destination was chosen for its combination of a great beach, rest and relaxation possible at the resorts that also offer golf and many other activities and excursions within the 2.5-hour range making this &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2014\/05\/20\/punta-cana-is-astas-5th-top-summer-hot-spot\/\" 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":[246,15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54379"}],"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=54379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54379\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}