{"id":2543,"date":"2015-07-28T10:56:41","date_gmt":"2015-07-28T14:56:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationaltransaction.com\/credit-card-merchant\/?p=2543"},"modified":"2015-07-28T11:21:58","modified_gmt":"2015-07-28T15:21:58","slug":"asta-global-convention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationaltransaction.com\/credit-card-merchant\/asta-global-convention\/","title":{"rendered":"ASTA GLOBAL CONVENTION"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationaltransaction.com\/credit-card-merchant\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/ASTA-logo-HI-REZ.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2488\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationaltransaction.com\/credit-card-merchant\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/ASTA-logo-HI-REZ-300x159.jpg\" alt=\"ASTA logo-HI-REZ\" width=\"300\" height=\"159\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nationaltransaction.com\/credit-card-merchant\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/ASTA-logo-HI-REZ-300x159.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.nationaltransaction.com\/credit-card-merchant\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/ASTA-logo-HI-REZ.jpg 724w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The annual\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.astaglobalconvention.org\/\">ASTA Global Convention<\/a> is set to take place in \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Washington, D.C., August 29 to September 2, 2015.<\/p>\n<p>A conference that is designed for all travel merchants, whether they are home, office or storefront-based.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">American Society Of Travel Agents (ASTA) plays such a vital role in government lobbying and regulation, travel agent awareness and education.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">This year\u2019s convention will feature a full roster of speakers, educational seminars, networking events and local sightseeing.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">ASTA Global Convention will feature pre-convention events including the chance to see a Washington Nationals baseball game, special tours of Washington, D.C. and the annual ASTA Advocacy Dinner.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The convention will take place at the Omni Shoreham Hotel near Georgetown. Hotel rates start at $169, booking with the dedicated room block ends August 7.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">ASTA registration rate will increase on August 1 by $25.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">For more information or to register, click on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.astaglobalconvention.org\/\">ASTA Global Convention<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The annual\u00a0ASTA Global Convention is set to take place in \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n<div id=\"more-button\"><a class=\"btn btn-more excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nationaltransaction.com\/credit-card-merchant\/asta-global-convention\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69,139],"tags":[222,140,1160],"class_list":["post-2543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-best-practices-for-merchants","category-travel-agency-agents","tag-merchants-2","tag-travel","tag-travel-merchants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationaltransaction.com\/credit-card-merchant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationaltransaction.com\/credit-card-merchant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationaltransaction.com\/credit-card-merchant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationaltransaction.com\/credit-card-merchant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationaltransaction.com\/credit-card-merchant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2543"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationaltransaction.com\/credit-card-merchant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2555,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationaltransaction.com\/credit-card-merchant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2543\/revisions\/2555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationaltransaction.com\/credit-card-merchant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationaltransaction.com\/credit-card-merchant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationaltransaction.com\/credit-card-merchant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}