Access, Partner and Connect with WYSE Travel Confederation
WYSE Travel Confederation is a global membership organisation of over 500 members. Our mission is to grow, inform and unify the global youth and student travel industry. Read more about WYSE Travel Confederation.
How does WYSE Travel Confederation work with Media Partners?
We work to develop quality relationships with diverse members, striving to assist you in a variety of ways:
- Gather ideas for stories youâ??re working on through our Press List
- Get access to our members and events
- Access industry news, research and trends via our press releases and active news posts and newsletters
- Rely on our extensive knowledge of the global youth and student travel network to identify key sources and create relationships
- Attend our World Youth and Student Travel Conference (WYSTC) and Work Experience Travel Market and IAPA Annual Conference (WETM-IAC) for networking, education and inspiration
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WYSE Travel Confederation publishes largest ever research on youth & student travelThe World Youth Student and Educational Travel Confederation (WYSE Travel Confederation) has published its New Horizonâ??s III report, the largest and most comprehensive survey ever undertaken for the youth travel sector. Read more | |
| October 2013 | ||
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At what point do you stop being a ‘young’ traveler?At what age do you cease to be part of the youth travel market?Twenty-five? Thirty? Forty? Or when you concede defeat? Read more | |
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Global youth travel market booming, as backpacker dollars add upThe stereotype of the youth travel market is chock full of dreadlocks, penny-pinchers, and party hounds â?? typically derided as a particularly non-lucrative market. Read more | |
| September 2013 |
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NY Times: Hostels Gain Popularity With Business TravelersFerdi van â??t Wout, a manager for a global electronics manufacturer in the Netherlands, frequently stays in hostels when traveling for work, an option he discovered last year by accident. Read more | |
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Young travellersâ?? spending soarsThe world may have been mired in recession for five years but nobody appears to have told younger travellers who are keener than ever to get out there and explore. Read more | |
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Young Travelers Spend Less Time Soul Searching, More Time Boosting ResumesThe world may have been mired in recession for five years but nobody appears to have told younger travelers who are keener than ever to get out there and explore. Read more | |
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Young travelers shun leisure to improve their CVsAt a time of rising youth unemployment and global economic austerity, research by the World Youth Student and Educational Travel Confederation (WYSE Travel Confederation) reveals that the numbers simply traveling for leisure has plummeted. Read more | |
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 Hostelling International’s Big Blog Exchange wins The WYSE Marketing Innovation AwardHostelling International (HI) has been awarded the 1st place accolade for Marketing Innovation, as part of the WYSE Travel Confederation’s Global Youth Travel Awards. Read more | |
| July 2013 | ||
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Travel Boom: Young Tourists Spent $217 Billion Last Year, More Growth Than Any Other GroupBackpackers may finally be getting some respect â?? at least from an economic standpoint. Young people are traveling more, staying away for longer periods of time and spending more money, a new report indicates. Read more | |
| February 2013 | ||
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This Is a Hostel?Grupo Habita, the Mexico City-based team behind the upscale Hôtel Americano in New York, is known for taking an unconventional approach to hospitality. Read more | |
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 STAY WYSE and Hostelbench sign partnership agreement. AMSTERDAM / DUBLIN – STAY WYSE the global association representing youth travel accommodation and Hostelbench the leading benchmarking service for hostels have signed an agreement to collaborate on data provision to the hostel sector. In addition Hostelbench users who are members of STAY WYSE will receive additional performance-based benchmarking data sets. Read more | |
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