{"id":67899,"date":"2015-09-15T20:25:15","date_gmt":"2015-09-15T20:25:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/?p=67899"},"modified":"2015-09-21T20:26:41","modified_gmt":"2015-09-21T20:26:41","slug":"hotels-to-buy-rd22-4-billion-in-farm-produce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2015\/09\/15\/hotels-to-buy-rd22-4-billion-in-farm-produce\/","title":{"rendered":"Hotels to buy RD$22.4 billion in farm produce"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Speaking at the Asonahores Trade Show held in Punta Cana last week, Dominican Republic Hotel &#038; Tourism Association president Simon Suarez announced that the tourism industry planned to purchase an estimated RD$22.4 billion worth of produce from Dominican farms in 2015. This is up 6% compared to last year, taking into account the projected 9% increase in traveler arrivals this year. <\/p>\n<p>Suarez made the announcement during the keynote speech during the 19th Asonahores Trade Show held at the Barcelo Bavaro Convention Center. <\/p>\n<p>He estimated that farm produce consumption by hotels has increased by 25% in the past five years, from RD$16.9 billion in 2009 to RD$22.1 billion in 2014.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaking at the Asonahores Trade Show held in Punta Cana last week, Dominican Republic Hotel &#038; Tourism Association president Simon Suarez announced that the tourism industry planned to purchase an estimated RD$22.4 billion worth of produce from Dominican farms in 2015. This is up 6% compared to last year, taking into account the projected 9% &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2015\/09\/15\/hotels-to-buy-rd22-4-billion-in-farm-produce\/\" 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\/67899"}],"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=67899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67899\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}