Upcoming Ethical Journeys Tour

Exploring Cuba: Sustainable Development, Community & Art

Delegation/Tour leader: Jeff Greenwald

June 12-20, 2012 (9 days)

$2800 (12-person min; Includes Miami-Havana Round Trip)

Exploring Cuba: Sustainable Development, Community & Art is a 9-day tour combining visits and dialogues with educational, social, cultural, agricultural and environmental organizations to gain a broad understanding of modern Cuba. This delegation is a joint Global Exchange Reality Tours and Ethical Traveler program with logistics handled by Global Exchange Reality Tours. Highlights of this unique journey include:

• Walking tour of UNESCO World Heritage site, Havana with a visit to the Literacy Museum, School of Art, Foundation for Nature and Humanity (Fundación Antonio Nuñez Jimenez) and projects on permaculture and environmental preservation
• Visit Vinales Valley to learn about the importance of the tobacco industry & dialogue with the local people on tourism issues in the region
• Excursion to “Las Terrazas” / Pinar del Rio Eco-Comunity and Sustainable Development site in the Sierra del Rosario Mountains – a UNESCO designated “Bio-Reserve” area.

Trip leader Jeff Greenwald is the Executive Director of Ethical Traveler, a global alliance of travelers dedicated to human rights and environmental protection.  Jeff is also the author of six best-selling travel books, including Shopping for Buddhas, The Size of the World (for which he created the first international blog), and Snake Lake. His work has appeared in many print and online publications including Afar, Islands, Outside, The New York Times, Smithsonian and Salon. Jeff’s critically acclaimed one-man show, “Strange Travel Suggestions,” premiered in San Francisco in 2003. To read dispatches about his previous Cuba trip, please visit www.ethicaltraveler.org/explore/dispatches/

This is a unique opportunity for professionals related to the theme of the tour (example: educators, sociologists, social workers, anyone involved in sustainability, travel writers, journalists) to visit Cuba legally and explore the future of US-Cuban relations. Global Exchange is a licensed travel service provider by the US Department of Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control and its “Sustainable Tourism” tour to Cuba was named 50 Tours of a Lifetime in 2010 by National Geographic Traveler.

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For additional assistance, please contact:

Carol Steele

Director of Cuba Customized Reality Tours, Global Exchange

(415) 255-7296 ext. 251

carol@globalexchange.org