{"id":1020,"date":"2011-05-12T08:38:30","date_gmt":"2011-05-12T08:38:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1020"},"modified":"2011-05-12T08:38:51","modified_gmt":"2011-05-12T08:38:51","slug":"cold-as-ice-then-a-little-otter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/sustainable-tourism\/cold-as-ice-then-a-little-otter","title":{"rendered":"Cold as ice…then a little ‘otter"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Tuesday I had a very enjoyable evening at Doxford Hall<\/a>; meeting a group of tourism and trade delegates from Iceland and talking to them about ‘best practice’ in wildlife tourism.\u00a0 Cold, northern countries have always appealed to me (one factor in\u00a0my decision to leave Arizona in May 2000 was the daytime temperature), so it was fascinating to listen to the group describing how wildlife\u00a0tourism in Iceland is developing.\u00a0 That we were able to do this over dinner (which was excellent) made it a fairly informal Q&A, with lots of\u00a0ideas shared and explored about the development of wildlife holidays, client requirements, the importance of local knowledge, the benefits of networking and the effects of the global financial crisis.<\/p>\n

Another enjoyable part of the evening was the chance to catch up with David Hunter again.\u00a0 I first met David just after we launched NEWT, when he was still at Matfen Hall and I went along to tell him what we were doing.\u00a0 At that time we were a fledgling business and didn’t have any real idea where it would go, or how it could develop.\u00a0 Three years down the line, and we’ve got a better idea (to the point where I’m invited to\u00a0describe best practice\u00a0to overseas delegates), although there’s a lot of development still to come!\u00a0 With David now running Doxford Hall it will surely continue\u00a0developing into an outstanding venue, and we’re looking forward to working with him in the future.<\/p>\n

Yesterday evening was a more typical one for myself and Sarah; scattering Coots<\/strong><\/em>, nervous geese<\/strong><\/em>, a hissing Mute Swan <\/strong><\/em>and the familiar, sinuous, twisting, turning and swirling\u00a0of an Otter <\/strong><\/em>feeding in front of us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On Tuesday I had a very enjoyable evening at Doxford Hall; meeting a group of tourism and trade delegates from Iceland and talking to them about ‘best practice’ in wildlife tourism.\u00a0 Cold, northern countries have always appealed to me (one factor in\u00a0my decision to leave Arizona in May 2000 was the daytime temperature), so it […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[837,472,87],"class_list":["post-1020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sustainable-tourism","tag-otter","tag-wildlife-holidays","tag-wildlife-tourism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1020"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1022,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020\/revisions\/1022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}