Speakers announced for youth travel conference

Wednesday, 26 Aug, 2011 0

Speakers have been confirmed for the World Youth and Student Travel Conference (WYSTC) being held in Barcelona from September 20-23.

The four-day event brings together over 700 delegates and 400 organisations from the international youth travel industry.

This year’s speakers will include:

– Taleb Rifai, Secretary-General of the United Nations World Tourism Organization, who will officially open the conference

– Helena Egan, TripAdvisor, who will speak on trends in online travel

– Peter Jordan, UNWTO, who will outline global tourism figures and trends

– Greg Richards, Tourism Research and Marketing who will talk about the youth travel outlook for 2012.

For more details or to register, go to www.wystc.org.

Bev

Editor in chief Bev Fearis has been a travel journalist for 25 years. She started her career at Travel Weekly, where she became deputy news editor, before joining Business Traveller as deputy editor and launching the magazine’s website. She has also written travel features, news and expert comment for the Guardian, Observer, Times, Telegraph, Boundless and other consumer titles and was named one of the top 50 UK travel journalists by the Press Gazette.