{"id":15077,"date":"2016-10-27T15:16:28","date_gmt":"2016-10-27T14:16:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/travindy.com\/?p=15077"},"modified":"2016-10-27T15:16:28","modified_gmt":"2016-10-27T14:16:28","slug":"alentejo-and-ribatejo-want-to-be-first-portuguese-biosphere-region","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/travindy.com\/news\/2016\/10\/alentejo-and-ribatejo-want-to-be-first-portuguese-biosphere-region\/","title":{"rendered":"Alentejo and Ribatejo want to be first Portuguese Biosphere region"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"lead\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-15079 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/travindy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/alentejo-298873_640.jpg\" alt=\"alentejo-298873_640\" width=\"640\" height=\"393\" srcset=\"https:\/\/travindy.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/alentejo-298873_640.jpg 640w, https:\/\/travindy.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/alentejo-298873_640-300x184.jpg 300w, https:\/\/travindy.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/alentejo-298873_640-116x70.jpg 116w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"lead\"><span class=\"wpsdc-drop-cap\">T<\/span>he Alentejo and Ribatejo regions of Portugal are carrying out a project to become the first region of the country, and the second in Europe, to have Biosphere Responsible Tourism Certification.<\/p>\n<p class=\"lead\">The project, which is being carried out by the Regional Tourism Board of Alentejo and Ribatejo, together with the Responsible Tourism Institute (ITR), was in focus on Friday at the International Conference entitled \u201cCertification of the Alentejo\/Ribatejo Tourism Destination,\u201d in \u00c9vora.<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cBiosphere Responsible Tourism\u201d standard was created by ITR and is recognised by the United Nations Organisation for Education, Science and Culture (UNESCO) and the World Tourism Organisation, according to the Biosphere Portugal website.<\/p>\n<p><strong>This is an excerpt from an article first published by <em>The Portugal News.<\/em>\u00a0Read the original article here: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/theportugalnews.com\/news\/alentejo-and-ribatejo-want-to-be-first-biosphere-region\/39942\" target=\"_blank\">Alentejo and Ribatejo want to be first Biosphere region &#8211; The Portugal News<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The regions aim to become the first region of Portugal, and the second in Europe, to have Biosphere Responsible Tourism Certification.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,16,534],"tags":[300],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Alentejo and Ribatejo want to be first Portuguese Biosphere region<\/title>\n<meta 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