Staff Feature: Francis Garcia

Name & Title Francis Garcia Program Manager

Hometown Constanza , Republica Dominicana

Years at Offbeat Travel 1 year

What do you like to do in your free time?

Watch Television play video games and read books

What is your favorite spot to travel to in your home country?

The beach

What is your favorite international destination?

Have not yet had the priviledge.

What is the favorite aspect of your job at Offbeat Travel?

Meeting new people and experience new and different cultures

What sets Offbeat Travel apart from other places you have worked?

They care about the communities they visit and want to give as much as they take from the places they visit and work with

What do you like the most about working with students and teachers?

Its never the same you learn something new every day you are working with them

Why is travel important to every education?

It teaches you about the realities of life they are thing you can't learn in a classroom about life and yourself but traveling helps you discover them and makes helps you discover the real world

What is your favorite / most meaningful aspect of your culture that you like to expose travelers to?

the affection of the people how they treat you like one of them without knowing you and al always ready to help

What does decolonizing travel meant to you?

Traveling shouldn't just be for the lucky ones, it should be something everyone can do and experience