About

Study Abroad sector within WYSE Travel Confederation represents a diverse range of youth travel programmes with a strong academic component and emphasis on participants’ learning. This includes abroad programmes like educational tours, experiential learning, language studies, secondary and tertiary education, skill-based and vocational training, volunteering, and other education-focused experiences.

The sector provides support to organizations producing and/or selling such programmes, and facilitates their success and growth through WYSE Travel Confederation Four Pillars:

• Trading: We offer a varied networking environment by expanding and diversifying our member base, creating benchmark industry events, and supporting customized trading connections
• Research: We provide our members with the data to guide strategic decisions, and we arm the sector with advocacy tools by driving focused research
• Education: We produce learning opportunities and foster best practices 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. We help define sector’s future by involving our members in higher-level discussions about its development. We ensure sector’s wider outreach by representing it within the global players and industry thought leaders.

Advocacy