{"id":1120,"date":"2015-12-02T14:52:22","date_gmt":"2015-12-02T18:52:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/barbados.org\/blog\/?p=1120"},"modified":"2015-12-03T11:30:44","modified_gmt":"2015-12-03T15:30:44","slug":"caribbean-destination-of-the-year-barbados","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/barbados.org\/blog\/caribbean-destination-of-the-year-barbados\/","title":{"rendered":"Caribbean Destination of the Year &#8211; Barbados"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Barbados has won the coveted &#8220;Caribbean Destination of the Year&#8221; in the 2015\u00a0Caribbean Journal Awards!<\/p>\n<p>In selecting Barbados,\u00a0Caribbean Journal highlighted the tremendous increase in popularity of the island\u00a0in the US market, as well as the launch of several major hotel projects.<\/p>\n<p>The fabulous Sandals Barbados resort opened this year, and work has started on new Hyatt and\u00a0Wyndham projects.<\/p>\n<p>The island remains a very popular destination for UK and Canadian travelers, attracted by the warm weather, even warmer welcome from Bajans, lovely <a href=\"http:\/\/barbados.org\/beaches.htm\">white sand beaches<\/a>, and array of <a href=\"http:\/\/barbados.org\/do.htm\">attractions, tours and activities<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/barbados.org\/al\/?event=c&#038;advert=FF91E36DC4CBB0CD6443BD6D966921F92817CC9A6D59EBC361F3CFB47E1CC0A1722871E44637B10DEDA6247120891751142F32A2CA66AE4C5667CF196F3CA218D187666A36B4783C85F4B2FED1AF59C7&#038;webAddress=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sandals.com%2Fmain%2Fbarbados%2Fbd-home%2F\" target=\"_blank\">Sandals Barbados<\/a><\/strong> was selected as the &#8220;New All-Inclusive of the Year&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><strong>JetBlue Airways<\/strong>, which recently launched its Mint service to Barbados, was chosen as &#8220;Airline of the Year&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-955 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/barbados.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/cruise-beach.jpg\" alt=\"On the beach in Barbados\" width=\"580\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/barbados.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/cruise-beach.jpg 580w, https:\/\/barbados.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/cruise-beach-300x129.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barbados has won the coveted Caribbean Destination of the Year award in the 2015 Caribbean Journal Awards!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":955,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[85],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/barbados.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1120"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/barbados.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/barbados.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barbados.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barbados.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/barbados.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1120\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barbados.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/barbados.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barbados.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barbados.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}