{"id":13850,"date":"2011-09-01T01:15:00","date_gmt":"2011-09-01T01:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wilderness-cruising-faces-change-2\/"},"modified":"2011-09-01T01:15:00","modified_gmt":"2011-09-01T01:15:00","slug":"wilderness-cruising-faces-change-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/2011\/09\/wilderness-cruising-faces-change-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Wilderness cruising faces change"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.traveldaily.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Cruise-Weekly-159x50.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/www.traveldaily.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Cruise-Weekly-159x50.jpg\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Two of the world\u2019s most pristine cruising regions have this week been subject to significant changes. AUSTRALIA\u2019S Kimberley and Ecuador\u2019s Galapagos are in the midst of transformations that may have an impact on cruise tourism. Yesterday\u2019s heritage-listing of WA\u2019s West Kimberley region (TD 30 Aug) has been hailed as a breakthrough for domestic tourism, but it is not yet known how it will effect activities of passenger ships.<\/p>\n<p>Federal Environment Minister Tony Burke said the ruling would protect almost 20 million hectares of land including extensive stretches of the coast. But environment groups have questioned why the site of a huge gas development at James Price Point has been largely excluded. Meanwhile, in the Galapagos National Park, new rules are set to ban cruise ships from visiting most islands more than once in a 14-day period. Effective from 01 Feb 2012, the regulations directly involve 50 cruise companies that operate in the Galapagos.<\/p>\n<p>But tour operators hope the restrictions will improve passengers\u2019 experience as they may often be on board the only ship at some ecologically sensitive sites. The new rules will also open up wildlife-rich areas such as Tagus Cove, which was closed several years ago to vessels with more than 40 pax. Snorkelling, kayaking and boat rides will also be regulated, with activities assigned to specific sites and times to avoid overlapping by cruise lines.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cruiseweekly.com.au\/\">www.cruiseweekly.com.au<\/a><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two of the world\u2019s most pristine cruising regions have this week been subject to significant changes. AUSTRALIA\u2019S Kimberley and Ecuador\u2019s Galapagos are in the midst of transformations that may have an impact on cruise tourism. Yesterday\u2019s heritage-listing of WA\u2019s West Kimberley region (TD 30 Aug) has been hailed as a breakthrough for domestic tourism, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[324],"class_list":["post-13850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-cruise-weekly"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13850\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}