The Beach Bum is happy to be in an article in Family Vacation Critic called “Amazing Family Vacations That Will take you outside of your comfort zone.” Pack your bags! More and more families are eager to get outside of the “gilded cage” of the all-inclusive resort. Often, someone in the[...]
The Beach Bum is honored to be featured in the October-December issue of STRIVE magazine “BeachCorps: Turning Sustainable Travel on Its Head.” STRIVE magazine is published by The Strive Group, an innovation think tank. STRIVE showcases businesses or people who have embraced the theme of positive change, opportunity and evolution.[...]
BeachCorps President David Searby was quoted in an article “Transformative Vacations: A New Trend in Cruise Travel” in Cruise Critic that included an overview of impact travel. “Charitable travel has grown steadily into a $2 billion industry,” says David Searby, president of BeachCorps, an organization that connects vacationers with volunteer work[...]
BeachCorps was featured in a great Punta Cana Bavaro Online story about our sustainable tourism partnership with the Fundación Grupo Puntacana and our first of many “Sustainability Night” events at Onno’s Bavaro 6-8pm this Friday August 17. The story was entitled “BeachCorps joins great companies in Punta Cana to create sustainable tourism.” PC-Bavaro Online and its[...]
On July 25, 2018, Travel Research Online, “The Voice of the Travel Agent Community,” published a story on the BeachCorps model. The story showed how travel agents can benefit by booking sustainable travel. The story noted that the Booking.com Sustainable Travel Report released this April for Earth Day confirmed that demand for sustainable travel[...]
BeachCorps President David Searby was invited to join a distinguished panel of experts in sustainable tourism on August 28, 2017 hosted by FUNGLODE and its sister organization in the USA the Global Foundation for Democracy and Development. Other panelists included Joel Santos, President of the National Association of Hotels and Restaurants[...]
On August 29, 2017, BeachCorps President David Searby appeared on Tendencias TV and Radio to launch the “Recycling for Education” program. Searby described the BeachCorps partnership with the premiere recycling and sustainability firm in the Eastern Dominican Republic, Ecoservices Dominicana, to create over the next year a program to help increase the amount of school[...]
On Wednesday, July 26, 2017 BeachCorps President David Searby spoke on Tendencias Radio about the July 22, 2017 project in El Cajuil Dominican Republic, which raised $US 500 for the great nonprofit Rescatame. Rescatame helps dogs and cats in the Punta Cana region, particularly by engaging and helping underserved communities[...]
BeachCorps happy that Bavaro News wrote about the successful BeachCorps partnership with GFDD and FECOTUR to educate children about recycling and the environment with “A Valentine for the Environment.” Click below and go to pg. 27. Image of story below. [...]
Practice your Spanish with the first ever media interview for BeachCorps! This interview took place on the Radio show “Tendencias” in Santo Domingo on February 20, 2017 on 88.5 FM.[...]
On February 20, 2017, BeachCorps President David Searby had the pleasure of discussing the BeachCorps model of voluntourism with the host of “Tendencias,” Francisco Tavarez. Thanks to Francisco for being such an informative and interesting host! It was the first time BeachCorps appeared on Dominican TV. Searby thanked the partners[...]
Posted on November 30, 2015 by affairsblog GFDD Global Round Table Guest Blogger: David Searby, Founder of BeachCorps. With International Volunteer Day on December 5th, it’s important to recognize the growing $2 billion global market for volunteer vacations, often called “voluntourism” by both supporters and detractors. Existing volunteer vacations in the Dominican Republic range from[...]
GFDD Fellow Emma Fawcett, Martha Honey, Co-founder and Executive Director of the Center for Responsible Travel and David Searby, CEO and founder of BeachCorps Volunteer Vacation discuss “Challenges for Sustainable Growth through Tourism in the Dominican Republic.” [...]
“Prospects for Service Travel Contributing to Sustainable Tourism and Development in the Dominican Republic” by BeachCorps President David Searby on August 31, 2016 at the Global Foundation for Democracy and Development. Searby presented along with GFDD Fellow Emma Fawcett, and Dr. Martha Honey, Co-founder and Executive Director of the Center for[...]
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