WIF Founder & CEO Dr. Monique Y. Wells Joins The Travel Institute's Professional Educators Program

HOUSTON - Feb. 26, 2023 - PRLog -- Wells International Foundation (WIF) Founder & CEO Dr. Monique Y. Wells has accepted an invitation to join the Professional Educators Program (PEP) at The Travel Institute.

Through this program, Dr. Wells will engage with travel professionals who seek to obtain or maintain travel agent certifications to teach them about the depth and breadth of African diaspora history, culture, and contemporary life in Paris.  She will also encourage them to support study abroad programs that include or focus on these elements when they travel to the City of Light.

The Travel Institute (TTI) has continuously evolved over its 50+ year history to maintain its role as the global leader in travel industry education and certification while staying true to its mission to advance professionalism in the field.  As an independent nonprofit organization, TTI has provided continuing education to hundreds of thousands of agents through specialist and business management courses, webinars, and in its online learning library.  It created PEP in 2011 to bring together top trainers, educators, and speakers inside and outside the travel industry.

PEP members share their knowledge through TTI-hosted webinars and blog posts, as well as through e-books and white papers.  Dr. Wells has written the Entrée to Black Paris travel blog since 2010 and been a guest on numerous webinars over the years to discuss topics relevant to Black Paris.  She published the bestselling e-book entitled Black Paris Profiles in 2012.  And she partnered with TTI for several years to offer the first and only continuing education course on African-diaspora Paris for travel professionals.

In addition to being WIF's founder and CEO, Dr. Wells is also one of two co-founders of Entrée to Black Paris (ETBP), a travel service that provides walking tours and other activities featuring African diaspora history, culture, and contemporary life in Paris.  ETBP collaborates with WIF on the Entrée to Black Paris Cultural Awareness Program in support of WIF's purpose, which is to cultivate global citizenship through education and culture.

Dr. Wells said the following about this partnership:

"Educating travel professionals about the richness of the Black Paris experience fully aligns with WIF's mission, vision, and purpose and the work we do with Entrée to Black Paris.  Delivering information and training through PEP will expand the reach of the Entrée to Black Paris Cultural Awareness Program and magnify its proven positive impact, particularly for study abroad programs."

About the Wells International Foundation (WIF)

WIF is a U.S. nonprofit organization whose mission is to empower women, children and youth, and people of African descent to realize their highest potential through arts, literacy, study abroad, and other educational and cultural programs.

For more information, visit https://wellsinternationalfoundation.org.