Explorica Canada Joins Student and Youth Travel Association; Company Meets Rigorous Criteria to Become Active Member.TORONTO -- Explorica, a leading educational travel company offering high-quality, low-cost travel programs worldwide, today announced that Explorica Canada has joined the Student and Youth Travel Association (SYTA SYTA Student and Youth Travel Association (R)), a move that positions the company as a partner and leader in the student travel industry. "Becoming a member of SYTA is an important step in showing how committed Explorica is to bettering all aspects of student travel," said Olle A. Olsson, Explorica Founder and President. "SYTA's leadership in the student travel field will be of great benefit to us as we further our company's goals of ensuring that teachers and students get the best educational tour, at the best price, and giving students the kind of learning that they will remember for the rest of their lives." SYTA, a non-profit, professional trade association promoting student and youth travel, is the "The Voice of Student & Youth Travel(R)." To become a member, companies must meet specific criteria and adhere to adhere to verb 1. follow, keep, maintain, respect, observe, be true, fulfil, obey, heed, keep to, abide by, be loyal, mind, be constant, be faithful 2. SYTA's purposes and goals, which include maintaining a professional code of ethics Code of Ethics can refer to:
"Tour operators must meet rigorous criteria and adhere to a code of ethics, high standards of safety and accountability to become members of SYTA," said Michael Palmer
Michael Palmer (b.May 11, 1943 in Manhattan, New York) is a contemporary American poet and translator. , SYTA Executive Director. "Explorica Canada demonstrates SYTA's principles which allow trip planners to feel confident when traveling with a professional SYTA tour operator." The rigorous application process includes verification of each company's financial stability, five letters of reference, proof of participation in an approved bonding program and evidence that the company has provided student/youth travel services for at least three years under the same ownership. Explorica is also a member of TICO TICO Travel Industry Council of Ontario (Travel Industry Council of Ontario), IATA IATA International Air Transport Association, which sets the rules for air transport, including those concerning air transport of animals. (International Air Transport Association), ETOA ETOA European Tour Operators Association ETOA Estimated Time of Arrival (usually seen as ETA) (European Tour Operators Association) and BETA (British Educational Travel Association). About Explorica Headquartered in Boston with offices in Toronto, San Diego San Diego (săn dēā`gō), city (1990 pop. 1,110,549), seat of San Diego co., S Calif., on San Diego Bay; inc. 1850. San Diego includes the unincorporated communities of La Jolla and Spring Valley. Coronado is across the bay. and Europe, Explorica is an educational travel company built for the 21st century. Its primary differentiator is an inventive use of technology applied to every aspect of the travel experience. Explorica's offerings include teacher-led student educational travel programs, student immersion programs such as Summer Academy(TM), and technological innovations enhancing each tour with online, personalized web-based TourCenters(TM). Explorica's management team has over 150 combined years of practice in the educational travel business. For more information, visit www.explorica.com or www.summer-academy.com. |
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