Custom Tour
February 16, 2013 – February 22, 2013
Global Exchange Reality Tours has been contracted to arrange travel for Busboys and Poets focused on Cuban Culture, Business and Sustainability from February 16 - 22, 2013Global Exchange is a licensed Travel Service Provider by the Office of Foreign Assets Control. Participants will travel under the General License unless other arrangements have been made.
November 1, 2013 – November 11, 2013
The origins of life itself begin with the Seed. In each is contained the secrets to living in harmony with the rest of species. How different would our human societies, economies, and structures of law look as part of a connected, Earth-centered community?
October 1, 2013 – October 10, 2013
After three decades of warfare, Afghanistan continues to strive towards reconstruction, despite weaning support for the NATO-backed government and the Taliban insurgency. Within this challenging environment, Afghan women are taking reconstruction, coupled with creating social change, into their own hands.
March 7, 2013 – March 17, 2013
2011 has witnessed massive movements and uprisings around the globe, from the Occupy! movements in the US, to the movements for Democracia Real Ya! in Spain, and the massive protest and assembly movements in Greece. Common to all these movements is their use of horizontal democracy and the occupation of physical space in which to create new democratic forms. They all began with a No! - a refusal to accept a crisis - and at the same time many yeses, with the creation of alternative forms of relating and being.
March 16, 2013 – March 24, 2013
The attention of the world focused on Chiapas on January 1st, 1994, the day that NAFTA went into effect, when an uprising led by indigenous Mexicans brought notice to their precarious living conditions.
October 30, 2013 – November 7, 2013
On this delegation, participants will have the unique opportunity to be in Oaxaca during the Day of the Dead/Dia de los Muertos celebration, a festival dating back to the Aztecs. As a result of neo-liberal economic policies, Oaxaca exports a large number of migrants every year to northern Mexico and the United States.
July 20, 2013 – July 29, 2013
Costa Rica is a study in contrasts. In the last decade Costa Rica has become an immensely popular tourism destination, known for its stunning scenery, abundant natural resources and diverse wildlife. With its extensive network of national parks, Costa Rica is at the forefront of the international conservation movement and has become synonymous with "ecotourism": socially responsible travel that theoretically conserves the environment while improving the welfare of local people.
July 1, 2013 – July 11, 2013
Similar to other countries in South America, Ecuador has traditionally suffered from the so-called "resource curse:" high poverty and inequality in a land of plentiful natural resources. Despite this fact, Ecuador serves as a model for some of the most far-reaching efforts to provide ecologically and socially-sustainable alternatives to the corporate global economy.
August 3, 2013 – August 11, 2013
The attention of the world focused on Chiapas on January 1st, 1994, the day that NAFTA went into effect, when an uprising led by indigenous Mexicans brought notice to their precarious living conditions.
April 19, 2013 – April 22, 2013
The contentious and often dramatic debate over immigration reform that has played out in America's streets and the halls of Congress has largely failed to address the root causes of migration.Global Exchange has a special perspective to offer travelers who want to understand Mexican migration from the inside.
