{"id":1303,"date":"2010-01-15T05:11:26","date_gmt":"2010-01-15T05:11:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.experiencesoutheastasia.com\/?p=1303"},"modified":"2020-11-04T17:38:03","modified_gmt":"2020-11-04T17:38:03","slug":"sri-lanka-tops-ny-times-list-top-travel-destination-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.experiencetravelgroup.com\/blog\/sri-lanka-tops-ny-times-list-top-travel-destination-2010\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka tops NY Times list as top travel destination for 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sri Lanka has been rated number 1 in the New York Times&#8217; top travel suggestions for 2010.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/01\/10\/travel\/10places.html\">Of the 31 countries listed in the feature<\/a>, the publication cited the end of Sri Lanka&#8217;s civil war, the island&#8217;s glorious beaches and spectacular wildlife as some of the principal attractions.<\/p>\n<p>The Nilaveli Beach Hotel and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.experiencetravelgroup.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/east-coast-beaches-menu\/\">unexplored east coast<\/a>,\u00a0Thambapanni Retreat were singled out for particular praise, as were The Sun House and Galle Fort Hotel in Galle.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s great to see Sri Lanka finally getting some much-deserved attention for the right reasons and we look forward to sharing in, and contributing to, the success and progress the country will make in 2010.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sri Lanka has been rated number 1 in the New York Times&#8217; top travel suggestions for 2010.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[76,15],"tags":[959,1369],"coauthors":[917],"class_list":["post-1303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel-news","category-sri-lanka","tag-competition","tag-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"views":2747,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.experiencetravelgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.experiencetravelgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.experiencetravelgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.experiencetravelgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.experiencetravelgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.experiencetravelgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1303\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.experiencetravelgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.experiencetravelgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.experiencetravelgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1303"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.experiencetravelgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}