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What an amazing fall season! By the numbers, it was our busiest season yet. Between our fall training in early September and our last trip at the end of November, we somehow managed to squeeze in 39 discrete programs involving 2,200 students. The majority of our trips were repeat programs with repeat clients, in familiar […]

Our 2023 “spring season” is now officially over, and it’s time to look back on how everything went. While we were all relieved by the official end of COVID protocols, we were underprepared for the surge in bookings, as old and new clients alike rushed to plan trips. We ran 51 programs for ~2400 students

The last few years have been challenging for everyone, especially for experiential education providers. On the one hand, I feel like we made the best of the situation. We developed new programs in new locations, closer to school campuses. We also used some of the unexpected downtime to improve our internal systems. We standardized our

2021 had marked a return to quasi-normalcy for Keystone Adventures, and moving into 2022, we were hopeful that this trend would continue. Alas, it was not to be, as the pandemic gained a second wind, and government officials responded with new restrictions and rolling lockdowns. In short, spring 2022 was yet another challenging season for

As our fall 2021 season comes to an end, I thought I would take the opportunity to summarize some new developments and lessons learned from the ongoing COVID-19 Pandemic. Compared to our most recent spring season, the fall 2021 season was significantly more challenging for us. First, a small outbreak in Jiangsu over the summer

We are proud to announce that Keystone Adventures has officially resumed normal business operations! 2020 was a challenging year for us, as the overwhelming majority of our clients decided not to run any trips, due to uncertainty surrounding the COVID-19 Pandemic. Without any programs to operate, we spent the year retooling and redeveloping. Specifically, we

What an amazing fall season! By the numbers, it was our busiest season yet. Between our fall training in early September and our last trip at the end of September, we somehow managed to squeeze in 51 discrete programs involving 2,040 students. The majority of our trips were repeat programs with repeat clients, in familiar locations:

This fall, we held our pre-season training in Yangshuo, the outdoor adventure capital of China. The training began with a getting-to-know-you, as we worked to quickly integrate our newest staff members. Our team for this fall is split almost evenly between male/female and Chinese/Western, which neatly mirrors the demographics of our client schools. At our 2018

One of my resolutions for the fall was to post regular updates on our ongoing season, but alas, this quickly fell by the wayside. Anyway, I figure it would still be worth sharing some of the highlights. In every sense, this was our best fall season ever. We facilitated 30 programs for more than 1,300

Our fall season officially kicks off this week, with six concurrent trips (in Beijing / Tianjin / Qinhuangdao / Inner Mongolia / Hangzhou / Dali) for International School of Tianjin students, grades 6 through 11. Before these trips, all 28 of our full-time staff for the fall rendezvoused outside of Beijing for several days of training.