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Nonprofit Travel Planners—
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Join ETC’s Listservs!

ETC’s Listservs are an especially valuable tool for travel directors and educational travel planners managing travel programs within nonprofit institutions/organizations. A LISTSERV is an online e-mail list service that will distribute an e-mail from you to all members of the Listserv. Any member of the Listserv will have the ability to respond to your message, and you will be able to respond to any message posted. All members will have access to all messages. Members can post to the list, change their e-mail address, or remove their address from the list at any time. To review ETC's listserv instructions, guidelines, and rules of etiquette, click here.

Find the listserv affinity group(s) that interests you from the list below, then click on the list(s) for which you want to sign up. Access to listservs is provided only to bona fide travel planners at this time. There is no cost to participate, only benefits! At a future date, separate listservs will be available exclusively to tour operators, destination representatives, and travel suppliers. Once you are subscribed to a listserv(s), you will be able to post a message to the liserv(s), using the appropriate network e-mail addresses listed below:

Choose the Network(s) Best for You:

ALL Network: all-talk@travelearning.com
An ALUMNI TRAVEL network exclusive to alumni and lifelong learning travel planners. Click here to join.

Moderators for All-Talk:
Roberta Moore, Director of Alumni Continuing Education & Travel Office of Alumni Relations at Dartmouth College
Debra Crary, Manager of Marketing and International Alumni Relations, University of Connecticut Alumni Association

MAC Network: mac-talk@travelearning.com
A CULTURAL TRAVEL network exclusive to travel planners working within Art Museums and Cultural Organizations. Click here to join.

Moderator for MAC-Talk:
Aleks Matic, Associate Director of Member Travel, Art Institute of Chicago


NACZ Network: nacz-talk@travelearning.com
A CONSERVATION TRAVEL network exclusive to travel planners working within Natural History Museums, Aquariums, Conservation Organizations, and Zoos.
Click here to join.

Moderator for NACZ-Talk:
Roberta DeVries, Travel Planner and Program Manager, Philadelphia Zoo


Why Participate?

All-Talk, NACZ-Talk, and MAC-Talk listservs will enable you to share information and discuss travel-related issues with your colleagues in the United States and overseas. These are listservs devoted exclusively to topics and issues of interest respectively to alumni travel planners, art museums and cultural organizations that manage trips for their members, and natural history museum, aquariums, conservation organizations and zoos that maintain travel programs. Likely discussion topics will include:
  • Suggested travel vendors
  • Travel program analytics
  • Successful destinations
  • Within destinations, recommended venues, special events, restaurants, hotels, transportation, guides, etc.
  • Highlights and lowlights of trips and itineraries
  • Tour operators who effectively met their requirements
  • Possible co-sponsoring of trips
  • Traveler-related “issues” and how to resolve them
  • Marketing ideas – how to expand your base of travelers
  • Exchanging documents such as “host manuals,” policies for lecturers, etc.
  • Sharing newsletter ideas and destination descriptions
  • Any other travel-related topic you wish to introduce

We are not in competition and can therefore help each other improve our existing programs. These specially focused listservs will enable us to look to our colleagues for their suggestions so that we don’t reinvent the wheel—as well as benefit from a cross-fertilization of ideas across the lines of all Educational Travel Programs.

Your Privacy is Assured

Your name and email address will not be used for any purpose other than your use of the listserv to which you have subscribed and ETC news dispatches concerning conference and community news.