{"id":2226,"date":"2007-03-23T07:39:07","date_gmt":"2007-03-23T15:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2007\/03\/tijuana_on_the_hudson.html"},"modified":"2008-01-24T13:26:05","modified_gmt":"2008-01-24T18:26:05","slug":"tijuana_on_the","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/03\/tijuana_on_the.html","title":{"rendered":"Tijuana On The Hudson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Now that <a href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2006\/06\/23\/pf\/expensive_cities\/\">Moscow is the most expensive city on the planet<\/a>, I suppose it makes sense to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nysun.com\/article\/51037\">lure more people to the bargain that is the Big Apple<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>New York City has become the first American city to have a tourism office in Moscow.<\/p>\n<p>NYC &#038; Company, which runs New York&#8217;s tourism industry, commissioned the Aviareps Group to do advertising and public relations work in Moscow. The office will be staffed by three people currently living in Russia.<\/p>\n<p>Another city tourism office opened Tuesday in Stockholm, to serve Finland, Denmark, Norway, and Sweden. It is all part of Mayor Bloomberg&#8217;s plan to increase the city&#8217;s visitor numbers to 50 million by 2015. It is estimated that about 44 million tourists visited New York last year, 46,000 from Russia.<\/p>\n<p>The city&#8217;s director of public relations for travel and tourism, Christopher Heywood, said Russians &#8220;have a propensity for the luxury goods market &#8212; they love the furs and diamonds, and they love the luxury hotels.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Copenhagen is 8 on the list and Oslo is 10 . . .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now that Moscow is the most expensive city on the planet, I suppose it makes sense to lure more people to the bargain that is the Big Apple: New York City has become the first American city to have a tourism office in Moscow. NYC &#038; Company, which runs New York&#8217;s tourism industry, commissioned the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new_york_new_york_its_a_wonderful_town"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2226\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}