{"id":22257,"date":"2014-11-30T12:31:49","date_gmt":"2014-11-30T10:31:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allmytraveltips.ch\/?p=22257"},"modified":"2014-12-06T14:59:49","modified_gmt":"2014-12-06T12:59:49","slug":"responsible-tourism-is-essential-and-a-growing-concern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.allmytraveltips.ch\/?p=22257","title":{"rendered":"Responsible Tourism is essential and a growing concern"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><em>A<\/em>lmost 90% of tourism business leaders say that responsible tourism is important to their business.<\/h2>\n<p><span class=\"post-author\"><em>By<\/em> <a title=\"Posts by Harold Goodwin\" href=\"http:\/\/www.crtmmu.org\/author\/admin\/\" rel=\"author\">Harold Goodwin<\/a><\/span> (<a title=\"Centre for Responsible Tourism \" href=\"http:\/\/www.crtmmu.org\">Centre for Responsible Tourism <\/a>Manchester Metropoliitan University)<\/p>\n<div class=\"post-content\">\n<p>The World Travel Market (WTM) 2014 Industry Report of a survey of 1,229 UK industry executives revealed that<\/p>\n<p><strong>More than 60 per cent of respondents said that responsible tourism will increase over the next three years, 30% say it will increase significantly<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>86% perceived sustainability to be important to their business.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.crtmmu.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/WTMResRT2014.jpg\" rel=\"prettyPhoto[983]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-987\" src=\"http:\/\/www.crtmmu.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/WTMResRT2014.jpg\" alt=\"WTMResRT2014\" width=\"394\" height=\"588\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>10% per cent said that sustainability is of central importance to their business,<\/p>\n<p>40%\u00a0 responded that it is very important,<\/p>\n<p>36% rated it as quite important, and<\/p>\n<p>only 14%\u00a0 said it was not very important, or not important at all.<\/p>\n<p>Based on a survey of 1,011, one third of UK holidaymakers say they consider responsible tourism when booking a holiday.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wtmlondon.com\/files\/wtm_industry_report_2014.pdf\">More information about the study. <\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Almost 90% of tourism business leaders say that responsible tourism is important to their business. By Harold Goodwin (Centre for Responsible Tourism Manchester Metropoliitan University) The World Travel Market (WTM) 2014 Industry Report of a survey of 1,229 UK industry executives revealed that More than 60 per cent of respondents said that responsible tourism will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,4,27],"tags":[5311,5312,5310,7634,5309,5313],"class_list":["post-22257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-natureprotect","category-news","category-eco","tag-eco-lodges","tag-responsible-tourism","tag-social-benefits","tag-sustainability","tag-tourism-business-leaders","tag-uk-holidaymakers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.allmytraveltips.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.allmytraveltips.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.allmytraveltips.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.allmytraveltips.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.allmytraveltips.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22257"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.allmytraveltips.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22261,"href":"https:\/\/www.allmytraveltips.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22257\/revisions\/22261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.allmytraveltips.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.allmytraveltips.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.allmytraveltips.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}