{"id":12591,"date":"2011-08-02T12:22:40","date_gmt":"2011-08-02T19:22:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/?p=12591"},"modified":"2011-08-02T12:25:35","modified_gmt":"2011-08-02T19:25:35","slug":"king-abdullah-ii-investing-in-park-with-trek-themed-ride","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/2011\/08\/king-abdullah-ii-investing-in-park-with-trek-themed-ride\/","title":{"rendered":"King Abdullah II Investing In Park With Trek-themed Ride"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <em>Star Trek<\/em>-themed attraction will be part of the 74-hectare Red Sea Astrarium project, which will begin development next year.<\/p>\n<p>And a familiar name will be part of the investment group funding the attraction, <strong>King Abdullah II <\/strong>of Jordan.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/TRS0523111.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-12600\" title=\"TRS052311\" src=\"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/TRS0523111.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"124\" \/><\/a>Trek fans remember that King Abdullah II, who was then Prince Abdullah, had a cameo non-speaking role in <em>Star Trek: Voyager: Investigations<\/em> back in 1995. King Abdullah II is known to be a <em>Star Trek<\/em> fan.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They have a group of investors,&#8221; said <strong>Randa Ayoubi<\/strong>, the chief executive of Rubicon Group Holding. The company will design and produce the entertainment elements of the resort. &#8220;The main Jordanian investor is the King Abdullah Fund.<\/p>\n<p>The resort will be built in Aqaba, and will include hotels, theaters, dining <a href=\"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/080211AbdullahII.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-12594\" title=\"080211AbdullahII\" src=\"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/080211AbdullahII.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"152\" \/><\/a>and shopping and will be &#8220;themed around the idea of Jordan as a &#8216;crossroads of civilizations.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The <em>Star Trek<\/em>-themed &#8220;space-flight adventure,&#8221; to be based on <em>Star Trek XI<\/em>, will be created under license from CBS Consumer Products and &#8220;creatively developed&#8221; by Paramount Recreation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Star Trek-themed attraction will be part of the 74-hectare Red Sea Astrarium project, which&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2700,2406],"tags":[3653,3654,3440],"class_list":["post-12591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-star-trek-voy","tag-jordan","tag-king-abdullah-ii","tag-park"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","newsphere-slider-full":"","newsphere-featured":"","newsphere-medium":""},"author_info":{"display_name":"T&#39;Bonz","author_link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/author\/tbonz\/"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/categories\/business\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Business<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/categories\/star-trek-voy\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Star Trek: VOY<\/a>","tag_info":"Star Trek: VOY","comment_count":"1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12591"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12591\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12603,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12591\/revisions\/12603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}