{"id":754,"date":"2013-02-21T13:02:30","date_gmt":"2013-02-21T17:02:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/barbados.org\/blog\/?p=754"},"modified":"2013-02-26T13:36:57","modified_gmt":"2013-02-26T17:36:57","slug":"barbados-among-worlds-ten-best-ethical-destinations-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/barbados.org\/blog\/barbados-among-worlds-ten-best-ethical-destinations-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"Barbados among World\u2019s Ten Best Ethical Destinations 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our lovely island Barbados has been included on the list of the World\u2019s Ten Best Ethical Destinations for 2013.<\/p>\n<p>The list is compiled by Ethical Traveler a non-profit organization founded to &#8220;empower travelers to change the world.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Each year Ethical Traveler reviews the practices of countries in the developing world, assessing their status in areas of social welfare, human rights\u00a0 and environmental protection while creating a sustainable tourism industry.<\/p>\n<p>In the area of social welfare, Barbados was cited for excellence in literacy and <a href=\"http:\/\/barbados.org\/educate.htm\" target=\"_blank\">education<\/a>. The country provides free education for its citizens from the primary to tertiary (University) level.<\/p>\n<p>Barbados was the only Caribbean destination included on the list.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ethicaltraveler.org\/explore\/reports\/the-worlds-ten-best-ethical-destinations-2013\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read the full report<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-755\" title=\"Barbados\" src=\"https:\/\/barbados.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/barbados-east-coast.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"585\" height=\"329\" srcset=\"https:\/\/barbados.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/barbados-east-coast.jpg 585w, https:\/\/barbados.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/barbados-east-coast-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 585px) 100vw, 585px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our lovely island Barbados has been included on the list of the World\u2019s Ten Best Ethical Destinations for 2013.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":755,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[85],"tags":[13,228],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/barbados.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/barbados.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/barbados.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barbados.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barbados.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/barbados.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barbados.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/barbados.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barbados.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barbados.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}