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Verge believes in travel for change. International experience creates global citizens, who can change our planet for the better. This belief is at the core of everything we do.
When I think back on it, my first experience volunteering overseas kind of sucked. It's a long story, but the short version is that I showed up in Nepal thinking that I was going to save the world and found out that really I was on an adventure tour posing as a volunteer programme.
Europe may be the School of Hard Knocks for ESL teachers, but Troy Nahumko has some tricks to ease the trade.
Don't just take our word for it. Verge interviewed some key execs to get their take on gap years. The bottom line? Go for it.
Elephants, freed from the cruelty of Thailand's logging industry, now face an equally grim prospect: Tourism.
Bill Frederick kicks off Verge Magazine's new Travel Ethics column with a look at the counterpoint of competing values.