{"id":3358,"date":"2017-01-16T16:20:05","date_gmt":"2017-01-16T20:20:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.explorica.ca\/blog\/?p=3358"},"modified":"2017-01-12T17:20:50","modified_gmt":"2017-01-12T21:20:50","slug":"letter-ceo-january-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.explorica.ca\/blog\/letter-ceo-january-2017","title":{"rendered":"Letter from the CEO, January 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear traveller,<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.explorica.ca\/landing\/ebrochure\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-3359\" src=\"http:\/\/www.explorica.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/CA-Catalog_callout-Dec2016.png\" alt=\"CA-Catalog_callout-Dec2016\" width=\"160\" height=\"270\" \/><\/a>Last fall we launched a bold initiative to make travel more accessible, and I\u2019m proud to report that we\u2019re off to an incredible start. Students have enthusiastically embraced our personal fundraising pages, receiving tens of thousands of dollars in contributions thus far. This year, we are continuing our efforts by expanding Explorica student travel grants and introducing financial assistance for qualifying Canadian families. Together, we are helping more students than ever join their classmates on a life-changing educational experience.<\/p>\n<p>The new year brings exciting changes in our headquarters as well: After 16 years as President of Explorica Canada, I\u2019ve accepted a new role as Explorica Vice President of Operations. I\u2019m thrilled to announce that our leadership has been passed to the very capable hands of my colleague David Conklin, now formally General Manager of Explorica Canada. I\u2019ve known David professionally for many years, and together we will continue to serve Explorica\u2019s mission stronger than ever before.<\/p>\n<p>I invite you to learn more about our mission by exploring pages 1\u201311 of this catalogue. Because travelling with Explorica means you get more than the guaranteed best prices; it means you get the best value, an experienced team and the backing of North America\u2019s largest and most respected educational travel provider.<\/p>\n<p>Your partner in travel,<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-3152 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.explorica.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Dan-Kellerd-e1484255461388.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"135\" height=\"135\" \/>Dan Kellerd, V.P. Operations \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-3360 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.explorica.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/David-Conklin_135x135.jpg\" alt=\"David-Conklin\" width=\"135\" height=\"135\" \/>\u00a0 David Conklin, G.M., Canada<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear traveller, Last fall we launched a bold initiative to make travel more accessible, and I\u2019m proud to report that we\u2019re off to an incredible start. Students have enthusiastically embraced our personal fundraising pages, receiving tens of thousands of dollars in contributions thus far. This year, we are continuing our efforts by expanding Explorica student <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.explorica.ca\/blog\/letter-ceo-january-2017\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-explorica-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3358"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3358\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3367,"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3358\/revisions\/3367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}