This is a guest post by Eric Lewis: “Take lots of pictures!” It’s something we hear just about every time we leave for someplace exotic. Family and friends want to experience our adventures vicariously, and who can blame them? Photographs preserve certain moments—priceless scenes and scenarios that evade verbal description. But every action has an [...]
I am lucky to have a guest blog post on Saundra’s ever-growing-in-popularity Good Intentions are Not Enough blog. I have been a fan of her writing and her philosophies for some time, so I was delighted for the chance to add some of my thoughts to her work. Here is the original post and below [...]
This is a guest blog post which was originally featured on the Travelanthropist website. Our trips during our first few years at PEPY were all about service. We were enthusiastic about offering travelers a chance to give back to the places they visited, otherwise known as voluntourism. Tour participants taught classes at local schools, visited [...]
Join in our conversation on VoluntourismGal’s website about volunteering in Haiti: http://voluntourismgal.wordpress.com/2010/02/17/spring-break-in-haiti/
I have been blogging elsewhere recently, so I wanted to link some of them here. This blog post was written for The International Business Council (IBC) blog and can be found in it’s original form here. The IBC and PEPY Tours in Cambodia When running a start-up organization, you are always looking for volunteers, people [...]
Alexia Nestora, aka “Voluntourism Gal”, recently put up a post called “Why Adventure Travel Companies Fail with Voluntourism”. It has generated a lot of feedback and discussion. I wanted to pass it on here and encourage others to join in the discussion: http://voluntourismgal.wordpress.com/2010/01/06/why-adventure-companies-fail-with-voluntourism/ My thoughts: I would argue that this list is missing the main [...]
I had meant to post this when I first commented on this blog, but then I guess I forgot. Today I was speaking with someone about criticism in their business sector, and it reminded me of this posting. I think we should not be afraid when people criticize the sector in which we work if [...]