{"id":32702,"date":"2007-09-25T05:30:31","date_gmt":"2007-09-24T21:30:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/2007\/09\/25\/4646-south-australia-to-host-eco-tourism-conference\/"},"modified":"2007-09-25T05:30:31","modified_gmt":"2007-09-24T21:30:31","slug":"south-australia-to-host-eco-tourism-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/2007\/09\/25\/32702\/","title":{"rendered":"South Australia To Host Eco-Tourism Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>South Australia's credentials as a clean, green tourism destination have again been acknowledged, with the announcement that the State will host the 2008 National Eco-Tourism Conference.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Around 400 conference delegates will see first-hand the eco-tourism experiences on offer in South Australia when they attend the conference in November 2008, to be hosted by Ecotourism Australia, the peak national body for the eco-tourism industry.<\/p>\n<p>South Australian Tourism Commission Chief Executive Andrew McEvoy says South Australia is already a leader in the field of ecologically sustainable tourism development, with around 15% of the nation's Eco Certified tourism operators based here.<\/p>\n<p>\"Our 76 Eco Certified tourism experiences include everything from swimming with wild sea lions and dolphins to four-wheel-drive touring through the Outback,\" McEvoy says. \"In addition, more than 20% of South Australia is set aside as reserves for conservation \u2013 a greater percentage than any other mainland state.<\/p>\n<p>More than one million \"nature-based\" tourists each year experience South Australia's easily accessible outback, bush, coast and river.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Australia's credentials as a clean, green tourism destination have again been acknowledged, with the announcement that the State will host the 2008 National Eco-Tourism Conference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12723],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32702\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}