{"id":2411,"date":"2023-10-03T13:00:35","date_gmt":"2023-10-03T13:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hikeandsail.com\/blog\/?p=2411"},"modified":"2023-10-03T13:02:05","modified_gmt":"2023-10-03T13:02:05","slug":"certified-for-excellence-in-sustainability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hikeandsail.com\/blog\/certified-for-excellence-in-sustainability\/","title":{"rendered":"CERTIFIED FOR EXCELLENCE IN SUSTAINABILITY!"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"av_textblock_section \"  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock  '   itemprop=\"text\" ><p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-2413 size-extra_large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hikeandsail.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/certified-1500x583.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1500\" height=\"583\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hikeandsail.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/certified-1500x583.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/www.hikeandsail.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/certified-300x117.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hikeandsail.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/certified-1030x400.jpg 1030w, https:\/\/www.hikeandsail.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/certified-768x299.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.hikeandsail.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/certified-1536x597.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.hikeandsail.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/certified-2048x796.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.hikeandsail.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/certified-705x274.jpg 705w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1500px) 100vw, 1500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Hike&#8217;n Sail T\u00fcrkiye is a local travel provider based in \u0130stanbul. Our core philosophy revolves around embracing the principles of sustainable travel. We are dedicated to minimizing our impact on the environment and natural surroundings while offering our clients immersive and meaningful travel experiences.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">We are proud to emphasize that Hike&#8217;n Sail is the only active member of the Adventure Travel Trade Association <a href=\"https:\/\/www.adventuretravel.biz\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">(ATTA)<\/a> in T\u00fcrkiye. We are dedicated to upholding principles that prioritize responsible and sustainable travel practices, and our extensive track record demonstrates our unwavering commitment to delivering exceptional travel experiences. Our longstanding association with ATTA has been a rewarding and enriching journey.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">After being a signatory of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hikeandsail.com\/blog\/climate-action-leaders-in-travel-pledge\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Climate Action Leaders in Travel Pledge<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hikeandsail.com\/blog\/we-declare-a-climate-emergency\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">We Declare a Climate Emergency<\/a> in 2020, we escalated our attempts towards being sustainable, and as of 2023, we participated in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.travelife.info\/sustour\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">EU-funded SUSTOUR<\/a> project and achieved the Travelife certification in the frame of the SUSTOUR support program for SMEs. Over 600 companies from 35 European countries took part in this program until mid-2023. We successfully attained the TRAVELIFE CERTIFIED AWARD! This certification places us among the two certified tour operators in T\u00fcrkiye with such recognition.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">We are truly grateful to the Travelife staff, and our coach\u00a0Mayte Redondo Castuera\u00a0for their guidance.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,12,18],"tags":[54,186,188],"class_list":["post-2411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mother-earth","category-news","category-travel-about","tag-certified-for-sustainability","tag-sustainable-tourism","tag-sustainable-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hikeandsail.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hikeandsail.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hikeandsail.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hikeandsail.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hikeandsail.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2411"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.hikeandsail.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2411\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2417,"href":"https:\/\/www.hikeandsail.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2411\/revisions\/2417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hikeandsail.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hikeandsail.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hikeandsail.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}