Photograph Courtesy National Geographic Traveler
Photograph Courtesy National Geographic Traveler
Under Keith Bellows, Traveler has won more than 50 Lowell Thomas awards for excellence in travel journalism and has twice been nominated for a National Magazine Award. He recently led a National Geographic team to create journeystreams an open-source online product to enable students to tell and share multimedia stories. Before joining Traveler he was executive producer of Excite, then the fifth largest site on the Internet. He also launched Babycenter.com and created and edited more than 30 magazines, after starting his career writing for numerous publications including Sports Illustrated, working as color commentator for ESPN, and for Readers Digest as editor. He is the author of The Canuck Book and is hard at work on the eagerly anticipated book 100 Places That Will Change Your Child’s Life.
Passionate about travel and world cultures, Bellows, a Canadian citizen, was born in the Congo and schooled at Gordonstoun in Scotland, with fellow classmate Prince Charles. He is a passionate advocate for travel and its ability to broaden us and add to our humanity.
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All The World’s a Classroom
Drawing from his global upbringing, international education, and experiences at the helm of National Geographic Traveler, Bellows shows how the greatest learning experiences you can give a child happen outside the classroom. He believes that to create world-ready workers we must raise world-savvy students, and that travel is a critical way to foster the next generation of global citizens.
Learn More About Keith:
The Titanic Awards: Keith Bellows’ World Worsts
Traveler: Down Home with Dolly (July/August 2009)
Traveler: Loving the Big Easy (May/June 2009)
Traveler: Theroux Revealed (April 2009)
Listen to Radio Interview With Keith Bellows
Boyd Matson Interviews Keith for NG Weekend Radio Show
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