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Mar 9th, 2010
TRADE CONFERENCE TO HONOUR SUSAN GOLDSTEIN
The Work Experience Travel Market and IAPA Annual Conference will hold a special reception to honour youth and student travel-industry leader, Susan Goldstein. Goldstein recently stepped down as managing director of event management company, WYSTC A/S to form her own firm, Susan Goldstein Associates – an independent consultancy that enables companies, associations and trade [...]
Mar 8th, 2010
TA Global Market Monitor shows steady inbound arrivals to Oz despite worldwide decline
Despite the global financial crisis and swine flu, inbound tourist arrivals to Australia remained static in 2009, compared to a four per cent decline in tourism worldwide. According to Tourism Australia’s latest Global Market Monitor, while January 2010 arrivals are expected to remain flat year on year due to the later Chinese New Year, beyond February [...]
Mar 8th, 2010
US: Innovative website helps with study abroad
An internet-based service informing students how best to live and study abroad has released a ‘10 Step Guide’ of advice, which universities could offer their foreign scholars. The founders of Boston-based Abroad101.com were inspired by the study abroad experience of childhood friends who realised the benefits of travelling and learning abroad while completing their university [...]
Mar 8th, 2010
Thailand top travel destination for gappers
Thailand has once again been named one of the best places in the world to enjoy a gap year adventure. The south-east Asian nation has been named as the world’s Best Tourist Country by Swedish publication Travel News for the eighth year in a row, beating the likes of Australia, South Africa and Italy. Share and Enjoy:
Mar 8th, 2010
Obama signs Bill to Create U.S. Tourism Board
A national tourism board to promote international travel to the United States is a provision of a bill President Barack Obama signed into law Thursday. As part of its duties, the board will coordinate advertising and other marketing efforts to encourage foreign travelers to visit the United States, The Washington Post reported. The measure is aimed at [...]
Mar 8th, 2010
Au Pair in Australia Program Just Added by InterExchange Working Abroad
InterExchange Working Abroad has just expanded its Australian program offerings to include a new Au Pair in Australia program. This is the third program InterExchange offers in Australia. With Australia’s popularity as a travel destination for adventure seekers, InterExchange has created yet another option for young people who wish to work while they travel. Share [...]
Mar 8th, 2010
goAUPAIR Announces “Au Pair Preview”
goAUPAIR is excited to announce its new Au Pair Preview. The Au Pair Preview allows families to search, review and compare hundreds of well-qualified and prescreened available Au Pairs without having to fill out any application. Unlike any other Au Pair search tool in the industry, the Au Pair Preview is available with no cost, [...]
Mar 8th, 2010
Tourism firms must take advantage of new trends
Comment by Gareth Williams, Highlands and Island Manager, Scottish Council for Development and Industry AT the beginning of last year, with the economy plunging into a deep recession and consumers rapidly reducing their spending, the prospects for Highland tourism appeared bleak. So it was with a degree of satisfaction that businesses at a recent SCDI seminar [...]
Mar 8th, 2010
In Havana, a Real Education
This year, almost 100 students from the United States are studying abroad in Cuba. What they’re learning—in classrooms and bread lines—will probably surprise you. Cuba and the United States have a troubled relationship to say the least. The island nation was once a de facto colony of the United States, from its 1898 independence from [...]
Feb 15th, 2010
Up to 5 percent of youth plan to study abroad
Three to five percent of school-leavers will choose to pursue their university studies abroad this year, Lithuania’s minister of education said on Thursday, Feb 11. According to a report from the Baltic News Service, Gintaras Steponavicius did not specify what data shows such numbers, but said he was not “dramatizing the situation.” Share and Enjoy:
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