2009 press releases

Discussion about Travelling to the U.S. prior Summer Season 

Prague, May 18, 2009 – Prior the main summer season, the American Center (Tržiště 13, Praha 1) of the U.S. Embassy in Prague will organize a program “To the Wild West without Visas – or what you need to know before your trip to the U.S.” held on Thursday, May 18 at 5 p.m.  The program designed especially for young people will provide advice about travelling in the U.S., information on visa waiver, traveler’s recommendations.

Consular officials Stuart Hatcher of the U.S. Embassy in Prague and Martin Klucar of the Czech Embassy in Washington, D.C., via videoconference, will answer participants’ inquiries.

Experience with traveling around the Northern American will be shared by “Work and Travel” program participants, traveler Petr Horky, American Center director and former U.S. correspondent of Czech Radio Miroslav Konvalina, experts on overseas tourism, and Spokesman of the Association of Czech Travel Bureaus and Agencies Tomio Okumara.

The American Center will also launch a second season of the amateurs’ photographic competition “America through Your Eyes”.

More information how to travel to the United States on visa waiver can be found at the embassy’s website http://prague.usembassy.gov/esta.html.

Admission is free.

To the Wild West without Visas
Date:  Thursday, May 18, 2009
Venue:  American Center, Trižiště 13, Praha 1 – Malá Strana
Time:  5 p.m.
Reservations: acprague@state.gov