{"id":2315,"date":"2015-06-02T08:07:21","date_gmt":"2015-06-02T07:07:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/travindy.com\/?p=2315"},"modified":"2022-08-23T13:00:41","modified_gmt":"2022-08-23T12:00:41","slug":"travelife-and-the-growth-of-responsible-tourism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/travindy.com\/news\/2015\/06\/travelife-and-the-growth-of-responsible-tourism\/","title":{"rendered":"Travelife and the growth of Responsible Tourism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;When the history of our times comes to be written, tour operators, travel agents, hotels and other tourism operators will be judged more than anything on what they did to embrace responsible travel in any of its aspects.&#8221; So writes\u00a0Dave Richardson in this review of efforts to be more responsible in the tourism industry for the Country by Country website, focussing particularly on\u00a0the growth of ABTA&#8217;s Travelife scheme.<\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"su-highlight\" style=\"background:#81b910;color:#fff\">&nbsp;GRAB THE ESSENTIALS&nbsp;<\/span><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Travelife works with tour operators to create a consumer-facing database of hotels and other accommodation providers worldwide that conform to strict responsible tourism standards.<\/li>\n<li>About 1,200 hotels and other accommodation units are accredited to Travelife, along with 20 tour operators.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><span class=\"su-highlight\" style=\"background:#81b910;color:#fff\">&nbsp;DIG DEEPER&nbsp;<\/span><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.countrybycountry.com\/features\/analysis\/getting-the-green-light-responsible-tourism\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Read<\/a> the original feature on Country by Country<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"removed_link\" title=\"http:\/\/www.travelife.org\/Hotels\/landing_page.asp\">Learn<\/span> more about becoming a member of Travelife.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.travelifecollection.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Discover<\/a> accredited hotels on the Travelife Collection website.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><span class=\"su-highlight\" style=\"background:#81b910;color:#fff\">&nbsp;KEEP UP WITH STORIES LIKE THIS&nbsp;<\/span><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As responsible tourism grows into the mainstream, David Richardson explores the benefits of schemes like Travelife for accommodation and tour operators<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[534],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Travelife and the growth of Responsible Tourism<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"As responsible tourism grows into the mainstream, David Richardson explores the benefits of schemes like Travelife for accommodation 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