{"id":2549,"date":"2010-02-13T11:34:07","date_gmt":"2010-02-13T09:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/?p=2549"},"modified":"2010-02-13T11:34:41","modified_gmt":"2010-02-13T09:34:41","slug":"eco-tourism-need-not-be-expensive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/eco-tourism-need-not-be-expensive\/","title":{"rendered":"Eco-tourism &#8216;need not be expensive&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/Eco-tourism.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-2550\" title=\"Eco-tourism 'need not be expensive'\" src=\"http:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/Eco-tourism-280x220.jpg\" alt=\"Eco-tourism 'need not be expensive'\" width=\"280\" height=\"220\" \/><\/a>There is no reason why eco-friendly holidays should be any more expensive than traditional breaks, according to a travel expert.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Jeremy Smith, who co-wrote Rough Guides&#8217; Clean Breaks book, said it is a popular myth that responsible tourism carries higher costs for consumers.<\/p>\n<p>He said that many people believe green holidays will be pricier as food and clothes that have environmentally friendly credentials are often thought to be more expensive.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;This doesn&#8217;t need to be the case at all with tourism,&#8217; Mr Smith commented.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Staying in a hotel that is responsible doesn&#8217;t mean that it is more expensive. Staying in a homestay can be one of the cheapest ways to travel.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>The writer identified a number of destinations that offer opportunities for eco-tourism, including South Africa, Laos, Costa Rica and Northern Ireland.<\/p>\n<p>Rough Guides&#8217; Clean Breaks book provides information on 500 experiences that benefit local people and communities, from watching the zebra migration in Botswana to riding the train-hotel from Paris to Madrid.<\/p>\n<!-- Either there are no banners, they are disabled or none qualified for this location! -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is no reason why eco-friendly holidays should be any more expensive than traditional breaks, according to a travel expert.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"jnews_post_split":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tourism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2549\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}