May 19, 2012

Travel Gap Year:

Travel News

Students urged to boost skills this year with a gap year

With the rising university fees forcing many students to rethink their career development path, gap years are becoming more welcoming for many.

Gap year skiing: Easyjet expands offering

Budget flight specialist easyJet has announced increased capacity on five of its most popular ski routes, making it the UK's largest ski airline.


Travel Features

Top 10 tips for planning your gap year And avoid the unavoidable

Each year, approximately 230,000 young people in the UK plan their gap year. If you haven’t travelled abroad for a substantial amount of time it can be a daunting task.

Cross the Atlantic with the ARC The Atlantic Rally for Cruisers

This annual transatlantic rally starting each November in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, has now become the most popular way to cross the Atlantic


Gap Year Volunteering

Gap Year Volunteering in Tanzania

Tanzania has a wide range of volunteering opportunities available in teaching, orphanage work and medical placements in both urban and rural Tanzania.


Gap Year Working Abroad

Experience the Thailand most Travellers Miss on i-to-i’s Newest Adventure

Imagine kicking back with remote hill tribes on the Burmese border, partying on Kho Pha Ngan, being immersed in Thai culture while volunteering with local communities, unwinding under stunning waterfalls and getting swept up in Bangkok’s frenetic energy


Gap Year Teaching Abroad

Teaching Abroad - Graduates Wanted!

Lattitude Global Volunteering has a wide range of Gap Year volunteer programs, which are ideal for gradutes looking for a challenge after University


Eco-tourism

The Galapagos islands

A Galapagos travel experience begins 960 kilometers off the coast of Ecuador. The Galapagos Islands are actually a part of Ecuador though some people believe they are an independent country, or a part of Colombia or Peru.


Gap Year Community projects

Nevada Wilderness Programme, USA

The Nevada Wilderness Programme aims to involve International and American participants who wish to collaborate together on environmental projects throughout Nevada's national parks.


Gap Year Conservation projects

Ocean Spirits Leatherback Sea Turtle Programme, Grenada, Caribbean

Work as a Research Assistant volunteer and take part in night patrols, flipper tagging, data collection, nest excavations and so on.


Gap Year Profile

Outreach International:
Make a difference by volunteering overseas with Outreach International

If you're thinking of participating in volunteer work abroad, we are a specialist organisation that places committed volunteers in carefully selected meaningful projects. We have a wide variety of projects but all of them are small, grassroots initiatives working with communities where volunteer work abroad can make a big difference.


International Volunteer HQ (IVHQ):
International Volunteering

International Volunteer HQ (IVHQ) provides safe, quality and extremely affordable volunteering programs abroad in developing countries all over the world.


Imire Volunteer Programme:
Life-changing: the Imire Volunteer Programme

The Imire Volunteer Programme is a hands-on programme, which allows you to become completely immersed in wildlife and everything to do with it. You will never be closer to nature than on the Imire Safari Ranch.


i-to-i:
Volunteer Abroad, Gap Year Travel & TEFL Courses

We’ve been sending people to volunteer in Africa, Asia, Australasia and Latin America since 1996. We are the original volunteer travel company and pretty much everyone here at i-to-i is a former volunteer or backpacker. We don’t like to blow our own trumpet, but we really know what we’re doing and have 20,000 happy former volunteers to prove it.


Gap Force:
Gapforce is a leading gap year provider

Gapforce is a leading gap year provider specialising in a range of worthwhile and meaningful structured programmes overseas. We offer expeditions and adventures, with activities including rainforest and marine conservation, teaching, healthcare, childcare and infrastructure development. With over 20 years experience we are truly one of the original organisations in the industry.