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The Experiment in International Living, or The Experiment, is a worldwide program offering homestays, language, arts, community service, ecological adventure, culinary, and regional and cultural exploration programs of international cross-cultural education for high school students.
Couchsurfing International Inc. was formed on 2 April 2003 as a New Hampshire nonprofit corporation, [3] with plans to apply for 501(c)(3) tax exemption. The website was launched on 12 June 2004 [ 9 ] with the cooperation of Dan Hoffer , Sebastien Le Tuan, and Leonardo Silveira.
Homestay (also home stay and home-stay) is a form of hospitality and lodging whereby visitors share a residence with a local of the area (host) to which they are traveling. . The length of stay can vary from one night to over a year and can be provided for free (gift economy), in exchange for monetary compensation, in exchange for a stay at the guest's property either simultaneously or at ...
ASSIST reviews member schools twice annually. Each school is visited by ASSIST staff and volunteers to ensure that the programs available meet the needs of the students who apply to the ASSIST program. The organization is active in more than twenty countries per year. [2] Its head office is located in Suffield, Connecticut, United States.
A student exchange program is a program in which students from a secondary school (high school) or higher education study abroad at one of their institution's partner institutions. [1] A student exchange program may involve international travel, but does not necessarily require the student to study outside their home country.
The majority of US students now choose short-term study abroad programs according to the most recent Institute of International Education Open Doors Report. In the 2008–09 academic year, the five countries US students chose to study abroad in most were the United Kingdom, Italy, Spain, France, and China. The total number of US students ...
In July 2015, MakeMyTrip invested in the travel information and hotel review portal HolidayIQ and picked up approximately 30% stake in the company. [15] In the same month, it invested $5 million in a startup called Bona Vita. [16] In January 2016, the China-based travel booking company Ctrip agreed to invest $180 million in MakeMyTrip. [17]
Airbnb, Inc. (/ ˌ ɛər ˌ b iː ɛ n ˈ b iː / AIR-BEE-en-BEE, an abbreviation of its original name, "Air Bed and Breakfast" [5]) is an American company operating an online marketplace for short-and-long-term homestays and experiences in various countries and regions.