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The current study assessed personality and Cultural Intelligence, two constructs that have been implicated in the success of and interest in international travel, in 188 undergraduate students. Participants completed measures of personality, Cultural Intelligence, previous multicultural experiences, and desire and intent to study abroad as an undergraduate student. Previous multicultural experience and the personality factor of Openness accounted for more than half of the variance in overall Cultural Intelligence scores. The personality factor of Openness was a significant predictor of intent to study abroad, but neither personality factors nor facets of Cultural Intelligence were able to predict desire to study abroad beyond the variance accounted for by previous multicultural experience. 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