{"id":2206,"date":"2015-05-27T11:57:04","date_gmt":"2015-05-27T10:57:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/travindy.com\/?p=2206"},"modified":"2022-08-23T13:00:29","modified_gmt":"2022-08-23T12:00:29","slug":"world-responsible-tourism-awards-announces-longlist-for-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/travindy.com\/news\/2015\/05\/world-responsible-tourism-awards-announces-longlist-for-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"World Responsible Tourism Awards&#8217; longlist for 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The longlist of finalists for the annual World Responsible Tourism Awards features 206 representatives from 69 countries. With this year seeing an entrant from Antarctica it means that 2015 is the first time there have been entrants from every single continent on Earth.<\/p>\n<h3>GRAB THE ESSENTIALS<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Among the list are the winners of the recent Irish Responsible Tourism Awards and African Responsible Tourism Awards at WTM Africa, the first two regional schemes in the World Responsible Tourism Awards family.<\/li>\n<li>The winners will be announced at World Responsible Tourism Day, which occurs each year at the annual WTM London event.<\/li>\n<li>The categories this year are:\u00a0Best animal welfare initiative;\u00a0Best for beach tourism;\u00a0Best cultural heritage attraction;\u00a0Best destination;\u00a0Best accommodation for disability access;\u00a0Best for engaging people &amp; culture;<br \/>\nBest hotel for local sourcing;\u00a0Best innovation for carbon reduction;\u00a0People&#8217;s Choice for Responsible Tourism;\u00a0Best for poverty reduction;\u00a0Best responsible tourism blog;\u00a0Best sea or river cruise; and Best for wildlife conservation.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>DIG DEEPER<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wtmlondon.com\/blog\/responsible-tourism\/biggest-ever-longlist-for-world-responsible-tourism-awards-announced\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read<\/a> Harold Goodwin&#8217;s blog about the longlist<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.responsibletravel.com\/awards\/media\/press-release-2015-longlist.htm#.VWWEw-NOEQo.twitter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">See<\/a> the complete longlist on Responsible Travel.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/wtm_wrtd\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Follow<\/a> WTM&#8217;s\u00a0Responsible Tourism\u00a0Twitter feed.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>KEEP INFORMED OF STORIES LIKE THIS&#8230;<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The longlist of finalists for the annual World Responsible Tourism Awards features 206 representatives from 69 countries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,287],"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 longlist announced<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The longlist of finalists for the annual World Responsible Tourism Awards features 206 representatives from 69 countries.\" \/>\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\/2015\/05\/world-responsible-tourism-awards-announces-longlist-for-2015\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"World Responsible Tourism Awards longlist announced\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The longlist of finalists for the annual World Responsible Tourism Awards features 206 representatives from 69 countries.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/travindy.com\/news\/2015\/05\/world-responsible-tourism-awards-announces-longlist-for-2015\/\" \/>\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=\"jeremymcsmith\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2015-05-27T10:57:04+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-08-23T12:00:29+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Jeremy Smith\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@jmcsmith\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@Travindy\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Jeremy Smith\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/travindy.com\/news\/2015\/05\/world-responsible-tourism-awards-announces-longlist-for-2015\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/travindy.com\/news\/2015\/05\/world-responsible-tourism-awards-announces-longlist-for-2015\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Jeremy Smith\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/travindy.com\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/65cacdf3d7388f87bd41e07423b7fbc4\"},\"headline\":\"World Responsible Tourism Awards&#8217; 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