{"id":1815,"date":"2011-11-19T09:00:42","date_gmt":"2011-11-19T14:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2011\/america%e2%80%99s-tourism-crisis\/"},"modified":"2011-11-19T01:28:22","modified_gmt":"2011-11-19T06:28:22","slug":"america%e2%80%99s-tourism-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2011\/america%e2%80%99s-tourism-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"America\u2019s Tourism Crisis?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/111911_0627_AmericasTou1.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The $120 billion that tourists spent in 2010 represented 8% of the United States&#8217; exports<\/li>\n<li>Between 2000 and 2009 tourism dropped 39%<\/li>\n<li>The stringent tourist visa requirements that leave no room for exceptions \u2013 even for children \u2013 have been discouraging individuals from visiting the United States<\/li>\n<li>The travel promotion act of 2009 created a Federal Agency that is dedicated to promoting tourism<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To see more hard numbers, and to find out some of the steps that the government is taking to increase tourism while continuing to maintain security click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/articles\/business\/exports\/2010\/11\/americas_looming_tourism_crisis.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/articles\/business\/exports\/2010\/11\/americas_looming_tourism_crisis.html\">Slate<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The $120 billion that tourists spent in 2010 represented 8% of the United States&#8217; exports Between 2000 and 2009 tourism dropped 39% The stringent tourist visa requirements that leave no room for exceptions \u2013 even for children \u2013 have been discouraging individuals from visiting the United States The travel promotion act of 2009 created a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1815"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1815\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1816,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1815\/revisions\/1816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}