{"id":94691881,"date":"2011-03-10T12:47:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-10T12:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/switzerland-earns-top-nod-as-most-competitive-country-in-travel-and-tourism\/"},"modified":"2011-03-10T12:47:00","modified_gmt":"2011-03-10T12:47:00","slug":"switzerland-earns-top-nod-as-most-competitive-country-in-travel-and-tourism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/switzerland-earns-top-nod-as-most-competitive-country-in-travel-and-tourism\/","title":{"rendered":"Switzerland Earns Top Nod as Most Competitive Country in Travel and Tourism"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: center\">\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/miles-away\/wp-content\/uploads\/files\/2011\/3\/Switzerland.jpg\" alt=\"Switzerland Comes in 1st in World Economic Forum's Survery, IMG Cred: Victor Velez\" title=\"Switzerland Comes in 1st in World Economic Forum's Survery, IMG Cred: Victor Velez\" width=\"450\" height=\"340\" align=\"middle\" \/>\n<\/div>\n<p align=\"center\">\n<strong>Switzerland Beats 139 Countries <\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>\nSwitzerland came out on the top of a global survey on the most competitive countries in travel and tourism conducted by the World Economic Forum.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<br \/>\nThe survey considers such elements as health and safety, infrastructure, prices, culture and environmental protection.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<br \/>\nThere was a total of a 139 countries in the World Economic Forum competition.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<br \/>\nThe U.S. finished six in the end, but was number one for natural resources, and a dismal 105 for environmental sustainability.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<br \/>\nThe top 10:\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<br \/>\n1. Switzerland<br \/>\n2. Germany<br \/>\n3. France<br \/>\n4. Austria<br \/>\n5. Sweden<br \/>\n6. United States<br \/>\n7. United Kingdom<br \/>\n8. Spain<br \/>\n9. Canada<br \/>\n10. Singapore\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nSource: <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/travel.usatoday.com\/destinations\/dispatches\/post\/2011\/03\/switzerland-soars-to-top-of-tourism-ranks\/146975\/1\" target=\"_blank\">USA Today <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Switzerland Beats 139 Countries Switzerland came out on the top of a global survey on the most competitive countries in travel and tourism conducted by the World Economic Forum. The survey considers such elements as health and safety, infrastructure, prices, culture and environmental protection. There was a total of a 139 countries in the World [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94691881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94691881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94691881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94691881\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94691881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94691881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94691881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}