23rd Educational Travel Conference
February 17-21 2009
Save the dates!
Early bird registration fees will remain the same as last year!
Location - the New Orleans Marriott, fronting the French Quarter
Special conference rates - $165 single/double
Exciting special events pre-Mardi Gras!
Registration will launch online this summer. BOOK your air tickets and hotel EARLY to ensure availability.
Watch for the ETC 2009 Save The Date postcard mailing this month.
See you in New Orleans!
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ETC 2008 was the best ETC ever! Across the board the speakers and sessions were excellent,
the keynote addresses were outstanding, the ETC team and hotel team worked seamlessly together -
and the hotel service was over the top this year. The International Bazaar was bustling as we
had a 10% increase in attendance - including the highest number of travel planners ever recorded!
Didn't attend ETC 2008? If you would like to secure materials from ETC 2008,
purchase session tapes for 2007 and 2008, and access the travel planner only NEW virtual
Jumpstart training materials - sign up now as a virtual registrant.
Once you submit your virtual registration you will then have password access to all of the
online resources made available to ETC2008 conference registrants, including the comprehensive
Conference Resource Directory and the virtual training materials and invaluable manual for Jumpstart 2008.
Attention all ETC 2008 attendees - watch for the posting of the ETC 2008
evaluation summaries soon on your personal dashboard. If you have not yet completed an
evaluation, please log in and fill out the short summary evaluations. Thanks!
Click here to view the brochure for ETC 2008
ETC 2009 Conference
The Premier Event for Educational Travel Professionals
"One of my favorite aspects of ETC is that it is a complex, multi-layered experience.
At its most basic level, it is a conference, and at this task it excels: replete with provocative
guest speakers, the bustling bazaar, and exciting events/dinners. On another, deeper level, it
is an annual gathering of friends and family, a magical international shin dig of epic
proportions. And on the deepest level, it is a sound, productive, benevolent, year-round
community, active in the most essential, meaningful ways, whether it be empathetic calls
among competitors during crisis, who feel less competitive after so many years of meeting
at ETC, or meticulously planned initiatives, small groups of us working together for sustainable
development, leveraging tourism and our (largely ETC related) relationships for poverty
alleviation, community development, and conservation."
Alicia Stevens, Director,
American Museum of Natural History Expeditions
Why Travel Planners Attend...
Why Travel Destinations, Operators and Suppliers
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