{"id":12302,"date":"2016-07-08T11:13:58","date_gmt":"2016-07-08T10:13:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/travindy.com\/?p=12302"},"modified":"2016-08-10T17:31:41","modified_gmt":"2016-08-10T16:31:41","slug":"aito-reveals-project-protect-sustaina-travel-weekly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/travindy.com\/news\/2016\/07\/aito-reveals-project-protect-sustaina-travel-weekly\/","title":{"rendered":"Aito reveals Project Protect sustainability initiative"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.travelweekly.co.uk\/articles\/62299\/aito-reveals-project-protect-sustainability-initiative\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/travindy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/easid-27593-media-id-7531.jpg\" alt=\"Aito reveals Project Protect sustainability initiative\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"wpsdc-drop-cap\">A<\/span> new sustainability initiative has been introduced by the Association of Independent Tour Operators three years after dropping a star classification system.<\/p>\n<p>Project Protect (People, resources, outreach, tourism, environment, conservation, tomorrow) will be led by Professor Xavier Font, of the University of Surrey, over the next five years.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>This is an excerpt from an article first published by <em>Travel Weekly<\/em>. Read the original article here: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.travelweekly.co.uk\/articles\/62299\/aito-reveals-project-protect-sustainability-initiative\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Aito reveals Project Protect sustaina&#8230; | Travel Weekly<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new sustainability initiative has been introduced by the Association of Independent Tour Operators three years after dropping a star classification system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":12303,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,675,534,141],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Aito reveals Project Protect sustainability initiative<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A new sustainability initiative has been introduced by the Association of Independent Tour Operators after dropping a star classification system.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/travindy.com\/news\/2016\/07\/aito-reveals-project-protect-sustaina-travel-weekly\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Aito reveals Project Protect sustainability initiative\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A new sustainability initiative has been introduced by the Association of Independent Tour Operators after dropping a star classification system.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/travindy.com\/news\/2016\/07\/aito-reveals-project-protect-sustaina-travel-weekly\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Travindy\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/travindy\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:author\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/travindy\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2016-07-08T10:13:58+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2016-08-10T16:31:41+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/travindy.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/easid-27593-media-id-7531.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"600\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"400\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Travindy\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@travindy\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@Travindy\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Travindy\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/travindy.com\/news\/2016\/07\/aito-reveals-project-protect-sustaina-travel-weekly\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/travindy.com\/news\/2016\/07\/aito-reveals-project-protect-sustaina-travel-weekly\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Travindy\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/travindy.com\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/79576b26c03e84ac969c6cf7ad8118bb\"},\"headline\":\"Aito reveals Project Protect sustainability initiative\",\"datePublished\":\"2016-07-08T10:13:58+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2016-08-10T16:31:41+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/travindy.com\/news\/2016\/07\/aito-reveals-project-protect-sustaina-travel-weekly\/\"},\"wordCount\":81,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/travindy.com\/news\/#organization\"},\"articleSection\":[\"Certification\",\"Corporate Responsibility\",\"News\",\"Tours &amp; 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