Karin Feltman
Volunteered after Hurricane Katrina
1. i actually don’t work for an organization that sends out volunteers- i find volunteering opportunities on my own and go. i work for a hospital here in lawrence as an ER nurse. they are supportive of my efforts, but they aren’t actually involved in that process. well…that isn’t exactly [...]
Jo Little
i-to-I press officer
Organisation profile
1. What does i-to-i do?
i-to-i is the world leader in ethical volunteer travel and TEFL
(teaching English as a foreign language) training. We send 5,000 people
a year to work with 500 community, teaching, sports, media and
conservation projects in 32 countries across Africa, Asia, Latin America
and Australasia. We offer the most widely recognised [...]
To go with Shari’s article, Joseph Tame has very kindly allowed me access to his photos of Japan, here’s a cool one from his skiing and snowboarding trip:
Joanna Lawson
Marketing manager
Andante travels
“We’re an archaeological travel company, set up in 1985, and owned and run by archaeologists. We run tours all over the world to ancient monuments, and each tour has a guide who is a respect archaeologist.
“The company was started by Dr Annabell Lawson, who started showing people around Stonehenge and sights in [...]
1. Why did you move to Japan? (and where did you move from?)
I moved from California in the United States. The reasons I moved are
a bit complex. Primarily, my husband and I had a brief and very
positive history in Japan and wanted to return to recapture that
situation. We also felt that we might find a [...]
Gap year travellers can now get a ‘bumper passport’ for all those far away country stamps.
The new passport, costing £77, has 16 extra pages in it.
It is identical to current passports, but has 48 pages, and is biometric.
Rolf Potts, adventurer, explorer and travel writer, offers advice on how to break into travel writing. Example of question:
Although I’ve assembled plenty of advice for aspiring travel writers on my websites over the years, I still get a steady stream of queries – often from college students – asking about how to land a travel [...]
Meaningful travel company i-to-i is just one of three businesses purchased by holiday provider First Choice.
i-to-i was part of a buyout that saw First Choice spending £16.6m to extend its portfolio of travel companies.
The two other businesses, iExplore and TKJ Pty Ltd, will join i-to-i in making up the First Choice activity holiday [...]
Leona Daly
Press Officer
VSO
What does VSO do?
We’ve been in operation for 50 years and we’ve developed as we’ve gone along. We send workers to 34 countries, and we’ve sent 30,000 skilled volunteers overseas since we started.
There are six key areas we send volunteers into:
[...]
A growing awareness of leaving a ‘carbon footprint’ while travelling has boosted rail holidays and business trips.
Rail operators in Europe are seeing a huge increase in demand for their inter-rail tickets, as cheap flights fall out of favour with environmentally friendly travellers.
Stephanie Draper, spokesperson for Forum for the Future, a sustainable development charity, said: “I [...]
