{"id":16592,"date":"2012-01-06T09:16:26","date_gmt":"2012-01-06T14:16:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=16592"},"modified":"2012-01-06T09:56:32","modified_gmt":"2012-01-06T14:56:32","slug":"bahamas-on-most-ethical-tourism-destination-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2012\/01\/bahamas-on-most-ethical-tourism-destination-list","title":{"rendered":"Bahamas On &#8216;Most Ethical&#8217; Tourism Destination List"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_16608\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16608\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-16608\" title=\"deans-bluehole\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/deans-bluehole.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/deans-bluehole.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/deans-bluehole-150x112.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-16608\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dean&#39;s Bluehole<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Bahamas is among the top 10 \u201cBest Ethical Destinations\u201d in the developing world, according to a report by EthicalTraveler.org.<\/p>\n<p>The report rates countries on a series of factors, including environmental protection, social welfare and human rights.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s always an honour to compile this list,\u201d said Jeff Greenwald, executive director of Ethical Traveler, said in a statement. \u201cIt gives us great pleasure to express our admiration for these countries, and we hope they\u2019ll reap real and economic social benefits as a result of our endorsement.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Greenwald said he was seeing a trend toward green practices and support for sustainable tourism, something he called a \u201ca fantastic development.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In the caribbean region Dominica was on the list last year; this was the first time for the Bahamas.<\/p>\n<p>Ethical Traveler is a nonprofit organized, founded in 1996 by Greenwald, which seeks to use \u201cthe economic clout of tourism to protect human rights and the environment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sknvibes.com\" target=\"_blank\">SKNVibes<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bahamas is on the list of top 10 \u201cBest Ethical Destinations\u201d in the developing world, according to a report by EthicalTraveler.org.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[76,33,73],"class_list":["post-16592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel","tag-environment-2","tag-tourism","tag-travel-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16592\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}