See an overview of Travel the World and a quick listing of the 2009 travel schedule (this link will bring you to their website); or, click on this link to download the brochure:  World Affairs Council 2010 WORLD TRAVEL Brochure

The World Affairs Council of Philadelphia, which organizes all the Travel the World trips, has been offering tours to its members and to cooperating councils for more than twenty-eight years. These trips offer all the highlights of touring plus access to political leaders and other local experts who give behind the scenes views and briefings that make their trips special and unique.  Approximately 250-300 people travel on the 15 - 20 trips offered every year. 

The Philadelphia Council began offering educational tours with their  trip to the People's Republic of China in 1977, when the group was among the first westerners to enter this fascinating country. Since then, the Council has designed frequent trips around the globe, visiting such diverse locations as Vietnam, Egypt, the Netherlands, Morocco, Antarctica, and Cuba, plus locations like the Pacific Northwest and the Antebellum South here in the U.S.

In addition to leading excursions to every continent, the Council offers many one-day trips to places such as New York, Washington DC, Baltimore, and other destinations. These trips also offer both substance and fun, from having tea at the British Embassy and receiving private briefings at the Pentagon, to visiting special art exhibitions.

In August, the National Board voted to make Philadelphia's Travel the World Program the fifth national Flagship Program of the world affairs councils system.

Below is the list of the trips being offered for 2009. 

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· February 5 - 26, 2010:   Around the World

· March 1- - 14, 2010:  North California Symposium

· March 20 - April 2, 2010:  Moroccan Discovery

· April 26 - May 1, 2010:   Inside Washington, D.C.

· May 3 - 15, 2010: Mandarin China

In this era of dramatic global change, new channels of communication are opening between people and cultures eager to share ideas and learn from one another.

Diplomacy is often thought of as exclusively practiced at summit meetings by heads of state. Instead, diplomacy's sincerest practice may be in the hands of people with an active interest in international affairs, people who come together under the banner of the World Affairs Council of Arizona (WAC AZ).

As a local designated programming arm for the National Council of International Visitors and the United States Department of State, the World Affairs Council of Arizona, Inc., hosts ambassadors, government officials, educators, journalists and business and opinion leaders from around the world who visit Arizona to learn about our community.

WAC is a privately funded, non-profit organization. For more than 25 years, WAC's members, from all walks of life, have enjoyed the unique opportunity of serving as unofficial ambassadors to foreign visitors from all over the world.

Helping Dignitaries Experience Arizona

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The World Affairs Council of Arizona, Inc., assists visitors invited to America by the United States Department of State and other federal government agencies by:

• Arranging their appointments with local government officials and business leaders
• Schedule their visits to education and cultural institutions
• Hosting receptions and dinner with community and corporate leaders
• Home hospitality with volunteer host families

In addition, WAC has developed a resource center that provides protocol assistance and country information to individuals, businesses and state agencies.

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The council system is made up of 86 free standing councils around the country. Each council operates their own programs, fundraising and conducts its own membership drives.

The council system is funded by a variety of sources. It puts out over 100 publications ranging from opinion surveys and classroom curricula to WACA leadership mission reports and conference proceedings.

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World Quest - Academic WorldQuest is a Flagship Program of the world affairs council system. The game was invented by the Charlotte Council and is now widely played at the adult and high school levels around the country. It is a team game testing competitors' knowledge of international affairs, geography, history, and culture. The competition is held in Washington, DC at the end of March or early April every year. The 2005 event attracted 49 teams from all over the country. Participants come from high schools that work with the World Affairs Council network.

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Great Decisions - Great Decisions (GD) promotes citizen awareness and discussion about timely foreign policy issues. Run by the Foreign Policy Association in New York, it is the oldest and largest grassroots educational program on world affairs of its kind in the country, with about 350,000 overall participants.

The purpose of Great Decisions is to educate citizens about issues of vital importance to American foreign policy, to provide them with the information to make informed decisions about the topics covered, and to enable them to participate in the foreign-policy process.

Great Decisions is one of the five Flagship Programs of the World Affairs Councils of America. A Flagship Program is one that is broadly supported throughout the council system and that builds the name and impact of the system and its councils.

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World in Transistion - The World in Transition (WIT) is a series of multimedia educational materials produced by the Southern Center for International Studies (SCIS) in Atlanta.  The materials are distributed nationally through the World Affairs Councils of America/World in Transition Flagship Program.  Each unit explores the geography, politics, economics, culture, and foreign policy of a given world region.  The world regions covered include Europe, Africa, Latin America, Middle East, Russia and the other former Soviet Republics, East Asia, and South Asia.  There is also a period piece on the End of the Soviet Union.

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It's your world - “It’s Your World: a broadcast of the World Affairs Council” is a radio production of the World Affairs Council of Northern California and KQED 88.5FM in San Francisco, CA. The weekly one-hour broadcast on Monday nights is hosted by council president, Jane Wales. Although based in San Francisco, the program covers a broad range of national and global issues.

The program is up-linked to the National Public Radio (NPR) Satellite each Wednesday for NPR affiliates to access and re-broadcast free of charge. Typical show formats include traditional lectures with audience Q&A and in-studio interviews. Running 57 minutes long, the show allows for local station teasers and a 15-30 second wrap-around at the beginning and end of each show for local Council promotions.

Find out more information about getting this program on your local NPR station.