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Cultural Homestay International welcomes first J-1 visitor from Cuba

Jun 28, 2017 | Exchange Visitor Program, Members

Cultural Homestay International (CHI) has welcomed its first J-1 participant from Cuba. Luis Chavez is participating in CHI’s Camp Leaders programme. CHI’s administrator, Ivy Cohen, picked him up from New York’s JFK Airport on June 17. Luis will be sharing his...

Welcome to our newest member – Abacus Study Abroad from Turkey

May 15, 2017 | Exchange Visitor Program, Higher Education, Language Travel, Members, Millennial Travellers

Abacus Study Abroad is an educational counselling agency, located in the heart of Istanbul since 2014. They represent several cultural exchange programs, work and travel, internship, summer school, language school and university programs, group...

Michael McCarry: U.S. cultural exchange programs 'make us safer'

Apr 11, 2017 | Advocacy, Exchange Visitor Program

Michael McCarry is a Senior Advisor for CENET Cultural Exchange Network and the former Executive Director of the Alliance for International Exchange. He is a leader within the exchange community with more than 37 years international experience. In 2015, McCarry was...

Alliance for International Exchange: International programs vital to U.S. security

Apr 7, 2017 | Advocacy, Exchange Visitor Program

The Trump administration has proposed cuts in FY18 of 28 percent to the State Department, with much deeper cuts likely to the Bureau for Educational and Cultural Affairs, and a significant narrowing of the types of exchange programs our country supports. If enacted...

Meet our member: TravelWorks

Mar 20, 2017 | Exchange Visitor Program, Language Travel, Members, Millennial Travellers, Work and Travel

We’ve interviewed Denis Smorchkov, General Manager of TravelWorks, who after starting a successful outbound Youth and Student travel company, he decided to offer similar work-experience opportunities by bringing students to Russia: Tell us your story. How did...

Trump's executive order – a big step backwards in cultural understanding?

Feb 1, 2017 | Advocacy

On Friday the 27th of January, the world watched in disbelief as President Trump took his first step towards retracting the United States from globalism by signing an executive order denying nationals of Iraq, Syria, Iran, Sudan, Libya, Somalia and Yemen travel...