About

The Study Abroad Sector Panel within WYSE Travel Confederation represents a diverse range of youth travel programmes with a strong academic component and emphasis on participants’ learning. This includes programmes such as educational tours, experiential learning, language studies, secondary and tertiary education, skill-based and vocational training and other education-focused experiences.
The Study Abroad Sector Panel provides support to organisations producing and/or selling such programmes, and facilitates their success and growth.

Objectives

• Trading: Offer a varied networking environment by expanding and diversifying the WYSE member base, creating benchmark industry events, and supporting customised trading connections.
• Research: Provide members with the data to guide strategic decisions and arm the sector with advocacy tools by driving focused research.
• Education: Produce learning opportunities and foster best practice through delivering sector-relevant educational content at our events, webinars and peer-to-peer discussion platforms.
• Advocacy: We support and protect the sector through research-based PR campaigns. The Panel helps define the sector’s future by involving members in high-level discussions about its development, and subsequently ensuring the sector’s wider outreach by representing it among global players and industry thought leaders.

Advocacy

San Diego Declaration

The San Diego Declaration provides the basis for WYSE Travel Confederation’s work with international organisations, governments, sector stakeholders and other NGOs in furthering the cause of global youth travel. The Declaration is a tool to highlight the economic, social and cultural importance of youth travel to governments worldwide.