{"id":15227,"date":"2016-11-02T11:09:23","date_gmt":"2016-11-02T10:09:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/travindy.com\/?p=15227"},"modified":"2016-11-02T11:09:23","modified_gmt":"2016-11-02T10:09:23","slug":"winners-of-skal-international-sustainable-tourism-awards-for-2016-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/travindy.com\/news\/2016\/11\/winners-of-skal-international-sustainable-tourism-awards-for-2016-announced\/","title":{"rendered":"Winners of Skal International Sustainable Tourism Awards for 2016 announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-15229 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/travindy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/SKAL-sustainable_logo.png\" alt=\"SKal sustainable tourism awards 2016\" width=\"437\" height=\"313\" srcset=\"https:\/\/travindy.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/SKAL-sustainable_logo.png 437w, https:\/\/travindy.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/SKAL-sustainable_logo-300x215.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 437px) 100vw, 437px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"wpsdc-drop-cap\">T<\/span>he winners of the annual Skal Sustainable Tourism Awards\u00a0were announced\u00a0on Sunday 30 October 2016 at the 77th Skal World Congress, held at the Grimaldi Forum in Monaco.<\/p>\n<p>The winners for the 2016 awards were:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tour Operators<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>ANDAMAN DISCOVERIES<\/strong>, Thailand<\/p>\n<p><strong>Urban Accommodation<br \/>\nHOTEL VERDE<\/strong>, South Africa<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rural Accommodation<br \/>\nSIMIEN LODGE<\/strong>,Ethiopia<\/p>\n<p><strong>Countryside and Wildlife<br \/>\nBIOSPHERE EXPEDITIONS<\/strong>, United Kingdom<\/p>\n<p><strong>Marine<br \/>\nPENNICOTT WILDERNESS JOURNEYS<\/strong>,Australia<\/p>\n<p><strong>Community and Government Projects<br \/>\nAMIGOS DE SIAN KA&#8217;AN<\/strong>, Mexico<\/p>\n<p><strong>Major Tourists Attractions<br \/>\nASSINIBOINE PARK CONSERVANCY<\/strong>, Canada<\/p>\n<p><strong>Educational Insitutions \/ Programmes and Media<br \/>\nCAPILANO UNIVERSITY,<\/strong> Canada<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Annual responsible tourism awards include best accommodation, tour companies, community and government projects<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":15229,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[266,534],"tags":[83],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Winners of 2016 Skal International Sustainable Tourism Awards announced<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Annual responsible tourism awards include best accommodation, tour companies, community and government projects\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, 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