The World Youth Student and Educational (WYSE) Travel Confederation and Destination New South Wales (Destination NSW), with the support of the Backpacker Operators Association New South Wales (BOA NSW) have partnered to launch WYSE Exchange Australia, an exclusive...
Two of Canada’s strongest independent travel brands team up. Leading small-group adventure tour operator G Adventures and WYSE Travel Confederation member Merit Travel have announced the launch of a new exclusive partnership. Effective 1 September, 2015, G Adventures...
StudentUniverse now stands to serve as a resource; Provide travel discounts to international students studying in Europe. StudentUniverse, a leading resource for student travel discounts, yesterday announced that it has partnered with the Erasmus Student Network...
Despite its wide-reaching socio-economic impacts, tourism still receives limited attention as a tool for development. On the occasion of the Third International Conference on Financing for Development (Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 13-16 July), UNWTO calls for higher support...
Last week UNWTO released positive news for international tourism, reporting growth above forecast expectations for 2014. Over 36 million more international tourists travelled between January and August 2014 compared to the same period in 2013. This represents a 5%...
The UNWTO has commended the measures taken by the Government of Romania to attract more international youth travellers through the country’s first tourism cluster dedicated to young people. The new Youth Tourism Cluster, an initiative by the Ministry of Tourism of...
