{"id":550,"date":"2011-03-02T17:25:57","date_gmt":"2011-03-02T21:25:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.qa.explorica.com\/blog\/?p=550"},"modified":"2012-12-06T14:08:48","modified_gmt":"2012-12-06T19:08:48","slug":"about-explorica-educational-travel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/about-explorica-educational-travel","title":{"rendered":"Explorica\u2019s Educational Travel Blog is Back!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Greece &amp; Italy Trip 2010 811 by thewells2009, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/36479750@N03\/4643645894\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4004\/4643645894_23b12be4e7.jpg\" alt=\"Explorica Greece &amp; Italy Educational Trip 2010 811\" width=\"500\" height=\"323\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span>At <a title=\"Explorica Educational Travel\" href=\"http:\/\/www.explorica.com\" target=\"_blank\">Explorica<\/a>, we\u2019re all about making cultural connections. And this blog is just another way to help you\u2014as teachers, students, and parents\u2014connect with the best educational travel experiences possible. Every week, we\u2019ll post ideas to get you on your way. Like fundraising tips, travel advice or unique destination insights that we\u2019ve collected from 11 years in the educational tour business.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span>We truly believe that experience is everything. And that includes building a <em>website experience<\/em> with rich information to help our travelers and tour leaders have a safe and rewarding educational trip. Easy things like what to pack. More complicated things like table manners in China or the right way to greet people in France. (Two kisses or three?) And then, some fun things just to get you thinking about how to select and customize your tour in <a title=\"Educational Travel in Europe\" href=\"http:\/\/www.explorica.com\/teachers\/select-a-tour\/european-tours.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Europe<\/a>, <a title=\"Educational Travel in Latin America\" href=\"http:\/\/www.explorica.com\/teachers\/select-a-tour\/latin-american-tours.aspx\">Latin America<\/a> or one of our hot spots across the <a title=\"Educational Travel in United States &amp; Canada\" href=\"http:\/\/www.explorica.com\/teachers\/select-a-tour\/north-american-tours.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">USA<\/a>. We\u2019ll highlight must-do activities in certain regions and seasons\u2014from ziplining in the Yucatan to strolling Christmas markets in Germany. Like to cut to the chase? We\u2019ll also post quick lists of best-loved tours, local traditions and unforgettable trips you should add to your bucket list.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span>An Explorica educational tour will be one you\u2019ll store in your \u201cI\u2019ll-never-forget-when\u201d story banks for life. We don\u2019t want you to miss a thing. So, if you\u2019ve got a suggestion or a question, we\u2019re all ears. Comment below to start a conversation here, on <a title=\"Explorica Educational Travel Facebook\" href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/explorica\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a>, <a title=\"Explorica Twitter Feed\" href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/explorica\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a> or <a title=\"Explorica Blog Email\" href=\"mailto:blog@explorica.com\" target=\"_blank\">the old fashioned way<\/a>. All connections are open. Welcome!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At Explorica, we\u2019re all about making cultural connections. And this blog is just another way to help you\u2014as teachers, students, and parents\u2014connect with the best educational travel experiences possible. Every week, we\u2019ll post ideas to get you on your way. Like fundraising tips, travel advice or unique destination insights that we\u2019ve collected from 11 years in the educational tour business. <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/about-explorica-educational-travel\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[58,67,60,40,68],"class_list":["post-550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-aside","hentry","category-explorica-news","tag-educational-travel","tag-europe","tag-explorica","tag-france","tag-latin-america","post_format-post-format-aside"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=550"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1971,"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550\/revisions\/1971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}