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Tackling Uncomfortable Conversations Abroad

Details: Written by: Janet Ngo; Category: Beyond the Guidebook

How do you navigate sensitive topics respectfully when local attitudes and beliefs are far different from your own?

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Uncomfortable Conversations Abroad
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How do you navigate sensitive topics respectfully when local attitudes and beliefs are far different from your own?
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Understanding and Navigating Privilege While Travelling

Details: Written by: Carolyn B. Heller; Category: Beyond the Guidebook

Being able to travel is a privilege we sometimes take for granted. How can we develop a keener awareness of how we’re perceived abroad?

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Understanding and Navigating Privilege While Travelling
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Being able to travel is a privilege we sometimes take for granted. How can we develop a keener awareness of how we'sre perceived abroad?
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Regenerative Travel: A Step Beyond "Do No Harm"

Details: Written by: Diane Selkirk; Category: Beyond the Guidebook

Reimagining the idea of travel to one that actively improves the places that people visit.

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Regenerative Travel: A Step Beyond "Do No Harm"
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Reimagining the idea of travel to one that actively improves the places that people visit.
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The Future of Travel

Details: Written by: Jessica Lockhart; Category: Beyond the Guidebook

Has the global pandemic hit the tourism reset button? Industry insiders weigh in on what post-pandemic travel could—or should—look like.

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The Future of Travel
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Has the global pandemic hit the tourism reset button? Industry insiders weigh in on what post-pandemic travel could - or should - look like.
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Volunteering Abroad for Families

Details: Written by: Claudia Laroye; Category: Volunteer Abroad

From cultural understanding to building empathy and modelling positive behaviour, the benefits of volunteer abroad opportunities for families are many.

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Volunteering Abroad for Families
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From cultural understanding to building empathy and modelling positive behaviour, the benefits of volunteer abroad opportunities for families are many.
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Volunteering in Canada's North

Details: Written by: Caelan Beard; Category: Volunteer Abroad

In the polar bear capital of the world, volunteers get a glimpse of the frontlines of climate change.

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Volunteering in Canada's North
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In the polar bear capital of the world, volunteers get a glimpse of the frontlines of climate change.
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How to Teach English in Japan

Details: Written by: David McElhinney; Category: Work Abroad

The demand for English teachers in Japan is on the rise. Here is how to get started.

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How to Teach English in Japan
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The demand for English teachers in Japan is on the rise. Here is how to get started.
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Chinese Workplace Culture: What to Expect

Details: Written by: Yana Myalo; Category: Work Abroad

Daily reports, long speeches and lunchtime naps? Getting to know Chinese culture as an employee is a whole new learning curve.

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Why I Travel: To Foster Empathy in My Children

Details: Written by: Jay F. Storz; Category: Why we travel

Cross-cultural immersion at a young age can be a lifelong gift.

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Why I Travel: Defending the Wild Dogs of Namibia

Details: Written by: Emma Reasoner; Category: Why we travel

My biology degree taught me to work with wildlife; the local community taught me to work with people.

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What I Learned Backpacking Overseas as a 17-Year-Old

Details: Written by: Tori Doman; Category: Budget Traveller

My advice for high school graduates about to head out on their gap year adventures.

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Surviving as a Vegetarian With My Host Family in Ukraine

Details: Written by: Francesca O'Hern; Category: Beyond the Guidebook

Being flexible with my diet helped me learn more about Ukrainian culture.

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Mourning the Loss of Travel

Details: Written by: Katie Bergman; Category: Travel Health

For many people, not being able to travel is a profound loss and the grief is real. Here's how to deal.

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Mourning the Loss of Travel

Details: Written by: Katie Bergman; Category: Travel Health

For many people, not being able to travel is a profound loss and the grief is real. Here's how to deal.

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Mourning the Loss of Travel
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For many people, not being able to travel is a profound loss and the grief is real. Here's how to deal.
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