Student Travel Business On the Rebound
For about 20 years, students from
the European history course at Yorktown High School in Arlington, Va.,
have traveled to Europe in the spring to visit some of the cities they
have studied in class. After the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, as in many
places, there were doubts about whether this year's trip would take
place.
"At first, we weren't sure, but parents really wanted us to do the trip," said Michael J. Palermo, a Yorktown High teacher who led the group of 75 students and chaperones. The only concession to terrorism fears was that rather than return to Greece and Turkey, which the school visited a year ago, officials opted for a nine-day tour of Italy and France.
The resilience of students from the 19,000-student Arlington district and elsewhere is leading to a faster-than-expected recovery for the growing student-tour industry in a school year marked by...
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