We here at Brightspark Travel don't need an excuse to appreciate teachers, but we just couldn't let Teachers' Appreciation Week, May 7 - 11, go by without doing a little something extra. To show you how much we appreciate you, we have decided to give away one two-night hotel stay to the teacher or group leader who writes the best description about why they love to travel with their class or group.

To enter, all you need to do is write at least 100 words on why you love educational travel. Write about the educational or social benefits to your students... Write about how you just love to leave your classroom behind and teach the experience... Write about anything, as long as it tells us why you devote your time and energy to traveling with your class. 

So how do you enter? Well, you can either email your entry to Marketing@BrightsparkTravel.com or you can send us a message or post it on our wall over at our Facebook Page. Just make sure to get your entry in by 12-noon (Central Standard Time), this Friday May 11th. We'll announce the winner at 4:00pm that same day!

Be sure to get your entry in - you're only 100-words away from your chance to win a two-night hotel stay in the United States city of your choice!

Terms & Conditions
1. This competition is open to residents of the United States, aged 18 years or over except employees of Brightspark Travel, Inc, TUI Travel, PLC, their families, agents or anyone else professionally associated with this competition.
2. All information detailing how to enter forms part of these terms and conditions. It is a condition of entry that all rules are accepted as final and that the competitor agrees to abide by these rules. Submission of an entry will be taken to mean acceptance of these terms and conditions.
3. Entries should be submitted to either the published email address or Facebook Page. 
4. To participate in this competition, entrants must write a short narrative about why the enjoy Educational Travel, to be no less than 100 words. Entries must be the work of the individual submitting them and must not have been published elsewhere or have won a prize in any other competition. It is the responsibility of each entrant to ensure that no element of their entry infringes the copyright of any third party or any laws. Entries will be judged on which are the most original, interesting and entertaining.
5. The judging panel will be comprised of representatives of Brightspark Travel. The judges’ decision is final and no correspondence shall be entered into.
6. Copyright in all submissions to the competition remains with the respective entrants. However, in consideration of their providing the Competition, each entrant grants a worldwide, irrevocable, perpetual licence to Brightspark Travel, Inc. to feature any or all of the submissions in any of its publications, its websites and/or in any promotional material connected to this competition.
7. Late, illegible, incomplete or defaced entries will not be accepted. No responsibility can be accepted for lost entries and proof of sending will not be accepted as proof of receipt. Entries must not be sent through agencies or third parties.
8. One overall winner will be chosen from all entries received and the winners will be announced on the Brightspark Travel Facebook Page on Friday, May 11, 2012.
9. The overall winning entrant shall win a 2-night hotel stay for two in the United States city of their choosing. The prize does not include travel costs, insurance, food and drink, personal expenditure or incidental costs other than where mentioned. It is the responsibility of the prize winner to ensure they and their guest have travel insurance, valid passports and obtain any necessary visas and vaccinations for their trip.
10. The prizes as described are available on the date of publication.All elements of the prizes are subject to availability, non transferable and there are no cash alternatives.
11. The winners may be required to participate in publicity.
12. The winners’ names and counties can be obtained by sending a sae to:
Brightspark Travel, Suite 100, Deerfield, IL 61944 between May 11, 2012 and June 11, 2012.
13. Events may occur that render the competition itself or the awarding of the prizes impossible due to reasons beyond the control of the Promoter and accordingly the Promoter may at its absolute discretion vary or amend the promotion and the entrant agrees that no liability shall attach to the Promoter as a result thereof.
14. Brightspark Travel is responsible for the publication and adjudication of this competition. United States law applies and the exclusive jurisdiction of the American Courts shall prevail.