China
Travel Interview with Tour Director Rob Sweetingham
Time to meet another EF person and learn a little about their life in travel with questions from the Independent newspaper. This time it is Tour Director Rob Sweetingham. One of the greats in an already quite great bunch of Tour Directors, Rob has the following accolade to be adorned on him. My wife, Michelle, Read more…
10 Highlights of a Student Tour to China
Cassandra Lund is a very experienced traveler with EF Tours, this trip to China marks her 15th EF Tour. Read the highlights from her adventurous and memorable tour! 1. The Forbidden City One of our first stops in China and Beijing was the Forbidden City. The Forbidden City was a huge and ornate place. There were Read more…
Why It’s So Worth it to Lead a Student Trip Abroad
Lillie Marshall (@WorldLillie on Twitter) is a teacher in the Boston Public Schools. In February of 2012 she traveled to Beijing with 42 Boston students through EF Tours. Lillie runs two travel and education websites, AroundTheWorldL.com and TeachingTraveling.com, along with the Education Bloggers group and chat. “Why should I spend my February Vacation with students?” Read more…
Americans’ Top 10 Dream Travel Destinations Revealed
Survey Question: If you could visit any place in the world, where would it be? A recent LivingSocial survey posed this question to 5,600 people, mostly Americans, and the results revealed an interesting mix of historical sites, natural wonders and the expected tourist meccas. And, it just so happens that EF offers tours to all Read more…
EF Professional Development Tour – China
Top teachers embark on EF Professional Development Tour More than two dozen of America’s best teachers are kicking off their summer in grand fashion—with an EF Professional Development Tour to China. This week, 26 recipients of the 2011 NEA Foundation Awards for Teaching Excellence touched down in Beijing to begin their 10-day educational and cultural Read more…
Teacher Appreciation Week 2011 – Winner!
A few weeks and more than 2,000 nominations ago, EF Educational Tours and Smithsonian Student Travel announced our first-ever Teacher Appreciation Week contest. And today, we are pleased to announce that the winner—who will receive a free professional development trip to China—is… Diane Otness Mrs. Otness teaches special education at Dutton/Brady Public School in Dutton, Montana. Read more…
Tour Flexibility and Eating Local
Today was supposed to be my “one day before departure” for my tour to Japan. Like so many group leaders going to Japan in the spring, I had to cancel the tour. Thanks to EF’s Peace of Mind Program and my hard-working tour consultant, Brandi Longtin, the cancellation process was smooth. My group chose not Read more…
Tips from a First Time Traveler
Victoria Kwong is an eighth grade student who attends Boston Latin Academy in Boston, MA. Here, she writes about the lessons she learned from her first international travel experience. By Victoria Kwong | Student Traveler In the summer of 2010, I spent two months in China, visiting Hong Kong, Macau, Gongbei, and Fujian on a Read more…
Food, glorious food (or, how I select my tours)
Even though I teach about democracy in my high school history classes, I don’t exactly put it into practice when it comes to running my classroom or selecting a tour. I consider myself as a “benevolent dictator.” I know many group leaders have success in letting their students choose their tour destinations. It is a Read more…
EF Debuts Teacher Training Tour To Beijing
By Eric Beato | EF Director of Communications First-time EF Group Leaders will be exploring an exciting, historic, unique destination next week on EF’s inaugural Free International Training Tour to Beijing, and I’m honored to be able to accompany them in China. After years of successfully training new group leaders in Paris and Rome on Read more…
