Adventure Travelers Show Growing Interest in Learning and Education
FRESNO, Calif., Aug. 17, 2006 — Gordon's Guide – Adventure & Active Travel Worldwide, the leading publisher in adventure and active travel, has launched its newest travel category — Educational Travel — at http://www.GordonsGuide.com. The site offers 10,000 trips to 3,000 destinations in 126 countries, for vacationers of all ages, making it the largest online marketplace for adventure and active travel.
"More and more travelers are incorporating education and learning into their vacation experience, such as learning a new language abroad," said Timothy E. Gordon, founder and CEO. "We are seeing more families scrapping traditional travel plans for more meaningful and interactive vacations. This trend will continue as more vacation providers accommodate the growing demand so this category will expand. Whatever the trends may be, adventure and active travelers will find what they're looking for at GordonsGuide.com."
As part of the Educational Travel category, travelers can choose to learn about the world of art from Art History Abroad, where instructors teach on site and expose travelers to the many beautiful treasures of Italy and London. For those desiring to learn a new language and cultural immersion, Languages Abroad, a leading language-travel organization, offers to teach 30 languages in 50 countries with a variety of travel options and programs to suit travelers needs.
Additional categories at GordonsGuide.com include archeological tours, eco-tourism, culinary vacations, safaris and special interest travel categories such as family camps, women's travel and corporate team building adventures. The site also offers dude ranches, heli-skiing, ATV vacations, houseboating, surfing camps, whitewater rafting and four and five-star resorts and unique retreats worldwide.
GordonsGuide.com is designed to help active travelers easily research adventure vacations, comparison shop and communicate directly with vacation providers worldwide to ask questions and learn of trip availability via electronic requests. Travelers can navigate quickly through the site and find exactly what they are looking for without encountering frustrating, dead-end or irrelevant searches. Once travelers find their ideal vacation, they can click on direct links to vacation providers to book trips.
About the Company
Founded in 1997, Gordon's Guide – Adventure & Active Travel Worldwide is a leading publishing company focusing on one of the fastest growing segments of the travel industry. Based in Fresno, California, the company publishes highly regarded magazine-style travel guides and an award-winning website, GordonsGuide.com, the premier information resource for active travelers, offering the finest adventure and active vacations from around the world. Gordon's Guide has partnered with premier vacation providers and resorts such as O.A.R.S., GAP Adventures, Dean Cummings H2O Heli Guides, Intrepid Travel, Backroads, Fairmont, Vail Resorts, Hilton Caribbean, Forever Resorts, Intrawest, ARAMARK Parks and Resorts and Delaware North just to mention a few of the vacation providers on the site. Forbes Magazine has awarded GordonsGuide.com "Best of the Web" for seven straight years.
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