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Area student chosen for study in Czech Republic |
2006-07-20 12:42:08 |
| autor: By Belia Ortega |
Macrae Hustings is collecting travel stamps in her passport and her next stop is Prague.
The 27-year-old Sheboygan Falls resident has been chosen among 30 international students that will be traveling to the Czech Republic on Wednesday to study for a week at the Center for Public Policy in Prague.
"I'm very excited about that and I found out a couple days after I got accepted into my graduate program at UW-Milwaukee," Hustings said. "I'm most looking forward to meeting the people and making new friends."
In Prague, the recent University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh graduate will be learning about psychological profiling, eyewitness testing and learning how to apply psychology in the courtroom through a program titled "Crime, Law and Psychology." The program is organized by the Center for Public Policy in cooperation with the Institute for European and National Strategies.
Although the subject matter is a little different from her plans to study educational psychology, learning and development as a master's student at UW?Milwaukee this fall, she said she hopes the experience will add to her overall understanding of the diversity among the populations.
Susan McFadden, professor of psychology at UW-Oshkosh, said the international experience has become increasingly important for students and professionals.
"Given the way the world is, any kind of international perspective you can bring to any job is important right now," McFadden said. "To travel to different countries and to add the research component really makes it neat."
Hustings is willing to grab hold of new learning opportunities, is open to new ideas and loves to travel, McFadden said.
"This is quite amazing. We're really proud of her. She's a wonderful student," McFadden said.
Hustings isn't a stranger to other cultures, this will be her fourth time studying abroad; she speaks Spanish fluently and has picked up on Portuguese and Creole in her travels to Brazil and Belize.
She began traveling when she was 21 and has visited Belgium, Holland, England, France, Italy, Switzerland, Germany, Spain, Jamaica, Brazil and Belize.
"I mainly just love meeting people," Hustings said. "It just kind of quiets my mind. The different pace of life. The people change me."
Hustings has learned quite a bit from her travels abroad. Her Spanish improved when she spent a semester in Barcelona. And she learned she could survive around tarantulas and snakes in Belize where she observed and collected data on how black howler monkeys use their hands. In Brazil she gained a better understanding on how diverse cultures view different kinds of psychological phenomenon through a cross-cultural study program.
"Macrae has a tremendous interest in languages and she picks up languages very quickly," said Kathleen Stetter, senior lecturer in the psychology department at UW-Oshkosh, who traveled with Hustings to Belize.
Hustings' interaction with diverse points of views will prove to be extremely helpful in her future as she works with various cultural differences amongst people, Stetter said.
"I think that is probably one of the main advantages that she will have. She also will have a very sound background in research ? and critical thinking," Stetter said. "This is just a tremendous broadening experience for students to participate in the kind of trips that Macrae has chosen."
Reach Belia Ortega at bortega@sheboygan-press.com and 453-5169. |
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A new domain opens up for package tours |
2006-07-20 12:40:51 |
| autor: Cristina Muntean, 26. 06. 2006 |
As of August, Czech travel agencies won't be able to sell ?tailor-made? packages of travel services ? tourism itineraries designed according to an individual request ? directly to their clients.
A new law on tourism that will become valid from Aug. 1 will allow only insured licensed tour operators to sell packaged offers, which typically include transportation, accommodation, car rental and various other services requested by a client during a trip.
Authorities say that the new measure is aimed at better protecting the interest of travelers.
?If a tour operator is bankrupt or can't respect his commitments, for example to cover the repatriation of a tourist, the client can go to the insurer and ask for his money back or get transportation back home,? said Marek Jah?dka, head of the tourism section of the Ministry for Regional Development (MMR).
Among other provisions, the new law will introduce clearer rules for selling travel packages online. It will become compulsory for travel agents to provide basic facts on the package, such as who is organizing the trip, the price and duration, information about the insurer, additional costs and the quality rating of the hotel.
Also, foreign tour operators active in the Czech Republic will be required to have a business license if they want to provide services regularly on the local market. Until the law comes into effect, however, foreign businesses will be able to act freely, thanks to European Union regulations on the free movement of services.
Jah?dka added that the new measure might have a significant impact on the tourism market, as travel agencies could be tempted to become tour operators in order to keep selling tailor-made packages.
?There will be a big change on the market because the travel agencies will want to sell the packages they design directly to their clients and not to a tour operator,? Jah?dka said.
?Of course classical travel agencies will benefit from this new law because clients will go directly to them to buy their trips,? said Petr Stan?k, the marketing director of Net Travel.cz, an online travel agency. Net Travel.cz already provides insured packages.
At the moment, only four insurance companies provide indemnities for tour operators in the Czech Republic, Jah?dka said. They are Generali Pojiš?ovna, ?eská pojiš?ovna, UNIQA pojiš?ovna and ?eská podnikatelská pojiš?ovna. Generali Pojištovna told CBW it remained ready to negotiate with all travel agencies on an individual basis.
Conditions for insurance depended on many factors, such as the agency?s economic situation and planned revenue. The new law might also stimulate competition among the domestic and foreign insurance providers, as some tour operators already have cheaper foreign insurance.
?A tour operator insured in another member country of the EU is also considered insured in the Czech Republic,? Jah?dka explained. He added that some favorite destinations of Czech tour operators for insurance purposes are Slovakia and Ireland.
About 800 tour operators and 7,000 travel agencies now operate in the Czech Republic, of some 5,500 are private individuals offering their services, said Tomio Okamura, spokesman for the Association of Tour Operators and Travel Agencies of the Czech Republic (A?CKA). Of those tour operators, about 200 don't possess a license or an insurance contract. |
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