Has anyone travelled with People to People Ambassadors? If so, what did you think of the trip, and what advice do you have for getting the most out of it?
For folks who don’t know, this is a group that (primarily) brokers travel for professionals to tour another country and meet with their counterparts in that country–thus, nurses would meet with medical personnel to share ideas and talk about issues of mutual interest. They also run programs for students, but that’s not primarily what I’m interested in.
Did they seem to be well-organized? I’ve read some online accounts that spoke very highly of the high school trips, often with participants saying it was a high point of their early lives.
My brother absolutely loved the trip, and would love to return to Austrailia/New Zealand someday. From all accounts they kept the students busy most of the time, but did on occassion give them free time, during which they could explore as long as they were in groups of 3 or more, including at least one guy. He took a lot of pictures, and brought home a number of souvenirs. It’s been more than a decade since then, and I think it was a wonderful way for him to start exploring foreign travel (He’s not actually travelled overseas since).