What makes the Bahamas a more ethical vacation choice than Costa Rica?
That’s the crux of a recent survey about ethical travel, a movement that encourages travellers to be mindful about the impact of bringing tourism dollars to one country over another. To encourage responsible globetrotting, a California nonprofit Ethical Traveler has been regularly compiling a list of its top 10 ethical destinations since 2006. The surprise: 2014’s list, which came out in late 2013, has three new contenders: the Bahamas, Chile and Dominica. So what are they doing right that Costa Rica, Ghana and Samoa (which fell off the list from 2013) didn’t do enough of?
The answer lies in the way Ethical Traveler evaluates countries for its top 10 list.
See full Article: http://www.bbc.com/travel/feature/20140306-the-worlds-most-ethical-countries-2014
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