{"id":66561,"date":"2014-08-19T08:10:00","date_gmt":"2014-08-19T06:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/66561\/the-wonder-of-ecotourism\/"},"modified":"2014-08-19T08:23:19","modified_gmt":"2014-08-19T06:23:19","slug":"the-wonder-of-ecotourism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2014\/08\/19\/the-wonder-of-ecotourism\/","title":{"rendered":"The wonder of Ecotourism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Germiston Probus Club hosted its monthly meeting, last Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The meeting, which took place at the Germiston\/Deville Bowling Club, listened to a talk on ecotourism by guest speaker Brent Record, from Vereeniging.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>This form of tourism involves visiting fragile, pristine and relatively undisturbed natural areas.<\/p>\n<p>The tours are intended as low-impact and often small scale alternatives to standard commercial tourism.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>The main purpose of ecotourism is to educate the traveller, while providing funds for ecological conservation.<\/p>\n<p>Record visited Antarctica 10 years ago, on one such tour.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We travelled along the Antarctic Peninsula in a boat, viewing animals and learning about the landscape,&#8221; he explained.<\/p>\n<p>Record encouraged others to take such trips.<\/p>\n<div class=\"stream-item stream-item-below-post-content\">\n<div class='tenancy_slot tenancy_slot_1 jannah_ad' style='display: none;' data-query-id='18973e404990a0324f36875afffa4df2'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Germiston Probus Club discuss the advantages of ecotourism at it&#8217;s monthly meeting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":66562,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[508,7,2],"tags":[8297,1012,4341,1003,1106,979,4343,2730,4342],"class_list":["post-66561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-editors-choice","category-local-news","category-news-headlines","tag-community-2","tag-east-rand","tag-ecotourism","tag-ekurhuleni","tag-gcn","tag-germiston","tag-guest-speaker","tag-leigh-hodgson","tag-the-germiston-probus-club"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"tag_labels":["community","East Rand","ecotourism","Ekurhuleni","GCN","germiston","guest speaker","Leigh Hodgson","the germiston probus club"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1848"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66561\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}