{"id":62549,"date":"2015-02-17T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-02-17T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/pages\/tourism-boosts-dominican-economy-2\/"},"modified":"2015-02-17T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-02-17T00:00:00","slug":"tourism-boosts-dominican-economy-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2015\/02\/17\/tourism-boosts-dominican-economy-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Tourism boosts Dominican economy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Central Bank reports that tourism growth of 7.5% of GDP in 2014 was 3.6% greater than in 2013. The Central Bank attributes the growth of the sector to a 9.6% increase in non-resident passenger arrivals. There was also a 3.1% increase in the national hotel room inventory, with 2,060 new rooms added this year. The Central Bank says that tourism receipts increased by 11.3%, with tourism contributing an estimated US$5.64 billion to the economy in 2014. <\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.bancentral.gov.do\/noticias\/pag_abierta\/archivos\/bc2015-02-15.pdf<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Central Bank reports that tourism growth of 7.5% of GDP in 2014 was 3.6% greater than in 2013. The Central Bank attributes the growth of the sector to a 9.6% increase in non-resident passenger arrivals. There was also a 3.1% increase in the national hotel room inventory, with 2,060 new rooms added this year. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2015\/02\/17\/tourism-boosts-dominican-economy-2\/\" 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":[247,15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62549"}],"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=62549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62549\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}