{"id":10828,"date":"2016-04-28T13:20:43","date_gmt":"2016-04-28T12:20:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/travindy.com\/?p=10828"},"modified":"2016-05-04T11:07:09","modified_gmt":"2016-05-04T10:07:09","slug":"world-responsible-tourism-awards-applications-now-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/travindy.com\/news\/2016\/04\/world-responsible-tourism-awards-applications-now-open\/","title":{"rendered":"World Responsible Tourism Awards applications now open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img alt=\"World Responsible Tourism Awards applications now open\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.responsibletravel.com\/awards\/images\/awards-top-img-2016.jpg\" width=\"935\" height=\"311\" \/>Applications are now open for the 2016 World Responsible Tourism Awards, which take place each year on World Responsible Tourism Day at WTM London. And this year the ceremony\u00a0will form part of the celebrations marking 10 years of World Responsible Tourism Day.<\/p>\n<p>This year there are five categories, considerably less than in other years, and thus allowing more time for winners to be featured on stage. The categories for 2016 are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.responsibletravel.com\/awards\/categories\/hotel.htm\" rel=\"nofollow\">Best accommodation for responsible employment<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.responsibletravel.com\/awards\/categories\/wildlife.htm\" rel=\"nofollow\">Best contribution to wildlife conservation<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.responsibletravel.com\/awards\/categories\/tour-operator.htm\" rel=\"nofollow\">Best innovation by a tour operator<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.responsibletravel.com\/awards\/categories\/economic.htm\" rel=\"nofollow\">Best for poverty reduction and inclusion<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.responsibletravel.com\/awards\/categories\/campaigning.htm\" rel=\"nofollow\">Best responsible tourism campaign<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Anyone wishing to enter for one or more of the categories can submit there entry on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.responsibletravel.com\/awards\/submissions\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">submission page here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This year entrants can apply in one of five categories: poverty reduction, best campaign, wildlife conservation, tour operator innovation, and employment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":10829,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[266,675,17,287,534],"tags":[83],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>World Responsible Tourism Awards applications now open<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"This year entrants can apply in one of five categories: poverty reduction, best campaign, wildlife conservation, tour operator innovation, and employment.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, 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