Tackling Uncomfortable Conversations Abroad

Tackling Uncomfortable Conversations Abroad

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

Understanding and Navigating Privilege While Travelling

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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’re perceived abroad?

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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’re perceived abroad?
Regenerative Travel: A Step Beyond Do No Harm

Regenerative Travel: A Step Beyond "Do No Harm"

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

The Future of Travel

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

Volunteering Abroad for Families

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

Volunteering in Canada's North

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

How to Teach English in Japan

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

Chinese Workplace Culture: What to Expect

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Daily reports, long speeches and lunchtime naps? Getting to know Chinese culture as an employee is a whole new learning curve.
Why I Travel: To Foster Empathy in My Children

Why I Travel: To Foster Empathy in My Children

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Cross-cultural immersion at a young age can be a lifelong gift.
Why I Travel: Defending the Wild Dogs of Namibia

Why I Travel: Defending the Wild Dogs of Namibia

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My biology degree taught me to work with wildlife; the local community taught me to work with people.
What I Learned Backpacking Overseas as a 17-Year-Old

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

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My advice for high school graduates about to head out on their gap year adventures. 
Surviving as a Vegetarian With My Host Family in Ukraine

Surviving as a Vegetarian With My Host Family in Ukraine

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Being flexible with my diet helped me learn more about Ukrainian culture.
Mourning the Loss of Travel

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.
Mourning the Loss of Travel

Mourning the Loss of Travel

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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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For many people, not being able to travel is a profound loss and the grief is real. Here's how to deal.
The Future of Tourism in Bali

The Future of Tourism in Bali

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Gone are the days of bustling beach crowds, surfer-saturated waves, and bumper-to-bumper motorbike traffic in Bali. Is this how tourism should be?
A is for the Atlas of Endangered Alphabets

A is for the Atlas of Endangered Alphabets

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Two-thirds of the world's written scripts are in danger of disappearing—and with them, the unique cultural knowledge they convey.
Yoga For Sale

Yoga For Sale

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A native of India weighs in on the cultural appropriation and commodification of an ancient Hindu spiritual practice.
Ebola & COVID: Communities Rising to the Challenge

Ebola & COVID: Communities Rising to the Challenge

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A veteran of Doctors Without Borders' Ebola mission in Uganda sees some surprising similarities in our behaviour during the COVID-19 pandemic.
COVID Across Cultures

COVID Across Cultures

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Returning home from Tanzania, I realized my need to travel was putting others at risk.
Faceplanting My Way Into an Overseas Emergency Room

Faceplanting My Way Into an Overseas Emergency Room

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The downfalls (literally) of being a 54-year-old backpacker.

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