Barre, VT – January 31,2010. For Immediate Release. Cultural Crossroads announced that the company president, Ms. Carrie McDougall would take part as an exhibitor on the 24th Educational Travel Conference to be held in Providence, Rhode Island from February 3 to 6, 2010. The Conference is organized by Educational Travel Community, part of Travel Learning Connections, Inc. This is the fifth time the Company is part of this significant conference.

For 2010 issue of the conference, travel business and media gurus will meet travel buyers from universities, colleges and museums around the US to discuss future trends, sustainable tourism and to network. This is the most important forum for the year for any organization selling to the educational and non-profit community in the USA.

Cultural Crossroads will be presenting its new tours to Peru, Sicily, Bhutan, and Guatemala, as well as its traditional signature tours to Mongolia, Turkey, Loire Valley, Tuscany, Russia and Egypt. Cultural Crossroads award-winning tour “Thailand: Unseen Culture and Nature” will be also featured at the conference.

Important part of the conference will be sustainable, charitable and responsible travel, which are in the company focus of Cultural Crossroads since its inception. The Company has several tours helping the local communities with volunteering included in the program, as well as several creative tourism activities. Cooking classes, Arabic calligraphy learning, and basket weaving are only a few of these culture immersion experiences that make Cultural Crossroads different and appealing to the educational travelers worldwide.


About Cultural Crossroads
Cultural Crossroads, LLC.offers small cultural tours highlighted by private and exclusive visits for the discerning traveler in an intimate and intercultural group setting while giving back to the communities visited.  Current tours include Turkey, Jordan, Italy, France, Spain, Russia, Egypt, Guatemala,South Africa and of course Vermont as the company headquarters are located in the Green Mountain State. Cultural Crossroads tours have been selected and included in National Geographic Traveler’s 2006 50 Tours of a Lifetime, and 2007 Conde Nast 40 Trips of a Lifetime. National Geographic Traveler included Cultural Crossroads trip to Thailand in its 2009 edition of 50 Tours of a Lifetime. Complete details of all trips including day-by-day itineraries are available at www.culturalcrossroads.com.

Media Contact: Carrie McDougall
802-479-7040
carrie  [at]  culturalcrossroads.com