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Educational Travel Consortium

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photo: WWII Museum

Teaching Through Tourism
FALL SYMPOSIUM
The Quest for Authentic & Inclusive Travel Learning Experiences

November 8-11, 2021
Higgins Hotel & Hilliard Conference Center
New Orleans, Louisiana

Safety protocols in place to help our members, presenters & colleagues remain safe & healthy

Join peers and national experts for a unique professional development opportunity this fall. A collaboration between Hargrove International and ETC – with major support from the Louisiana Office of Tourism, the Louisiana Byways Program, the National WWII Museum and the Higgins Hotel New Orleans – this Symposium will serve as a catalyst for advancing educational travel and heritage tourism post-COVID.  This collaboration will add a new and innovative dimension to programming as well as bring complimentary constituencies together.

The focus will be on the critical legal, safety, marketing and programming issues in post-COVID recovery and growth. Roundtables, top experts, intensive learning sessions, and skill-building blocks are featured in a timely and content-rich agenda. Two parallel tracks – the Cultural Heritage Tourism track and an Educational Travel track – will deliver content specific to their community. Outstanding plenaries will offer insights from national experts on topics relevant to advancing both educational travel and cultural heritage tourism in the 21st century.

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Plan Your Trip

ABOUT THE AREA
The Symposium will be held in downtown downtown New Orleans on the National WWII Museum’s six-acre campus.

The Higgins Hotel is on this campus as well as five soaring pavilions which house historical exhibits, on-site restoration work, a period dinner theater, and restaurants.

map courtesy National WWII Museum

NEWS
New Orleans’ Emeril’s restaurant to reopen October 2021. The flagship restaurant of Chef Emeril Lagasse has been closed for more than a year due to the COVID-19 pandemic and then Hurricane Ida.

The New Orleans You Love is Coming Back! Kitchens are bustling, street corners are musical again, shops are open and museums are ready to walk you through history.

TRANSPORTATION
Transportation from the New Orleans International Airport Terminal to the Higgins Hotel and Conference center is fast and easy.  The trip is about 25 minutes in light traffic. 

You can make online reservations at competitive rates in your choice of vehicle.    These arrangements can be made in advance for single or round-trip options, and they take you directly to the door of the Higgins where doormen and bellmen will greet you. 

  • photo courtesy New Orleans and Company, Richard Nowitz
  • photo courtesy New Orleans and Company, ZSmith
  • photo courtesy National WWII Museum
  • photo courtesy National WWII Museum

NEW ORLEANS
“New Orleans’ culture is its greatest strength, and it is the people of New Orleans who create that culture. We intend to focus on ensuring that the tourism industry benefits all residents of New Orleans, as it continues to benefit our members and our visitors, to nourish and sustain the culture of our city which makes New Orleans a world-class travel destination and the world’s greatest place to live, for those of us lucky enough to call it home.” Read more from New Orleans & Company.

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