Gap year specialists prepare for enquiries
A-level students could decide today whether to take a gap year in the coming months.
Those who don’t get the grades when they open their A-level results today could join one of the 24,000 that ABTA says will take a gap year in 2013.
The figure is based on statistics from the admission service UCAS.
Thailand is the number-one destination for gap-year students, according to ABTA members which specialise in the sector.
To coincide with the release of A-level results today, ABTA has revealed the 10 most popular gap-year destinations over the past 12 months.
Second is Australia, third is the US, fourth is South Africa and fifth is Peru.
Vietnam, Brazil, India, New Zealand and Fiji make up the rest of the list.
Meanwhile, a survey by Contiki Holidays reveals 75% of over 35s regret not travelling more in their youth.
Of the 2,000 surveyed 65% would tell their younger selves to make the most of all the opportunities presented to them.
The survey found that while Australasia, Latin America and South East Asia were amongst the top five desired destinations, less than 14% of people had actually made their way there.
Over a third (39%) of respondents aged between 18 and 34 said travel had impacted their work opportunities in some way: giving them more confidence at work, enhancing their CV, prompting them to work in a different country, changing career or leading them to retrain.
Lisa
Lisa joined Travel Weekly nearly 25 years ago as technology reporter and then sailed around the world for a couple of years as cruise correspondent, before becoming deputy editor. Now freelance, Lisa writes for various print and web publications, edits Corporate Traveller’s client magazine, Gateway, and works on the acclaimed Remembering Wildlife series of photography books, which raise awareness of nature’s most at-risk species and helps to fund their protection.
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