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Greenheart Travel is the travel abroad branch within Greenheart International, a non-profit founded in 1985 and based in Chicago: their mission is to connect people and the planet to create global leaders. Since Greenheart Travel’s first traveller in 1996, thousands of students and adults have travelled studying, volunteering, teaching and working abroad. Offering meaningful travel…

Founded in 1932 by Cora Wilding in Canterbury, YHA New Zealand was the first Southern Hemisphere hostel ever. Nowadays it hosts over ¼ million guests each year and inspires them to explore and discover New Zealand. After many years of sustainable projects, their great effort to safeguard our environment was recognised with the victory at this year’s Global…

This year’s winner of the Global Youth Travel Award for Best Travel Technology Product was the check-in app Tipi. Recently born, but already of great success after being launched through Base & Nomads Australia and New Zealand hostels in March 2016, Tipi has now reached 20,000 downloads and is forecasting over 500,000 check-ins over the coming…

Alliance Abroad Group (AAG), winner of the Extraordinary Experience award at the 2016 Global Youth Travel Awards, has been a leader in international recruitment for over 27 years. As a U.S. Department of State-designated program sponsor for the J-1 Visa Work & Travel program, Intern/Trainee programs, and Teacher programs since 2009, Alliance Abroad Group has…

The winners of the Global Youth Travel Awards 2016 – in partnership with Destination Canada and International Experience Canada – were announced yesterday, 23 September during the concluding event of this year’s World Youth and Student Travel Conference (WYSTC) in Belgrade. Having drawn an impressive number of nominations and votes, the award categories celebrate the outstanding performers within…

WYSE Travel Confederation is pleased to announce that the following 27 organisations have been short listed for nine awards that will be granted at a gala celebration that will bring the 25th annual World Youth and Student Travel Conference (#WYSTC2016) to a close on Friday, 23 September 2016 in Belgrade, Serbia. These nine categories of the Global Youth Travel…

Rustic Pathways – winner of the Best Youth Tour Operator award at the 2015 Global Youth Travel Awards – is looking forward to a year of helping volunteers and local communities grow. We took some time to catch up with them and find out what the organisation has in store for the New Year. Is…

From the perspectives of a youth travel blogger, volunteer programme organiser, accommodation provider, youth tour operator and youth travel agent we offer a look into the age of youth travel and decipher if youth travel is getting younger, or is it just a state of mind? We spoke to some of the winners of the…

Aileen Adalid is the author behind the 2015 Global Youth Travel Award winning blog iAmAileen.com. We recently caught up with her for a chat about life after winning the Best Youth Travel Blogger category, and what’s trending with travel bloggers this year. How do you plan to promote your 2015 Global Youth Travel Award throughout the coming…

  Now is your chance to win one of this year’s 14 awards. The Global Youth Travel Awards formally recognise outstanding performers in fourteen areas of youth travel for their extraordinary contributions to our global industry. This year’s awards include ten nominated and four consumer-voted categories. Nominated awards Best Education Abroad Provider Best Green Accommodation Initiative Best…