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GTTP Opened My Eyes To Many Travel and Tourism Career Choices, by 2010 Student Research Award Winner, Gemma Haywood

May 13, 2015 5:56 pm Published by Leave your thoughts

Google translation Gemma Haywood was a UK winner of the Global Travel and Tourism Partnership Research Award in 2010 while a student at Cornwall College St Austell*. She and her fellow UK winner Josie Greatorex presented at the GTTP’s annual student/teacher conference, which was held in Munich that year. In this interview, Gemma shares a taste of the adventures she’s been up to...


Kyangala Girls’ GTTP Club in Kenya engages in planting and studying the environment

February 18, 2015 2:56 pm Published by Leave your thoughts

In Kenya,  56 public secondary schools across 47 counties run the GTTP program as a Tourism Club, with over 800 students participating in total. The GTTP’s Passport to the World curriculum to introduce students to the travel and tourism industry is fully endorsed by Kenya’s Ministries of Education and Tourism.  Mr. Nzioka, GTTP Club Patron...


A Force For Good

February 2, 2015 5:09 pm Published by Leave your thoughts

By Michel Taride, Chair of the GTTP Advisory Board and Group President of Hertz International If you are considering a career in travel and tourism then I wish to reaffirm that you are looking at a truly exciting and rewarding industry to work in. Tourism is a Force for Good. It promotes tolerance and peace. It creates...


Revisiting Culinary Tourism – the GTTP Student Research topic of 2013

December 19, 2014 5:52 pm Published by Leave your thoughts

This article highlights how Emily Zehnder, Sarah Zehnder, and Leigh Thompson, the Canadian GTTP student winners in 2013, progressed their GTTP research work this year, 2014. By Heather Brown, Teacher Sponsor, David Thompson Secondary School The theme of the 2013 Student Research Competition sponsored by the GTTP focused on food and culinary tourism in the participant’s home country. Twenty-two high...


GTTP Brazil student conference on “The Future of the Tourism Professional”

December 9, 2014 1:09 pm Published by Leave your thoughts

GTTP Brazil organized a student conference on “The Future of the Tourism Professional” as part of the World Tourism Day celebrations on September 27th this year. Mr. Vinicius Lages, Brazil’s Minister of Tourism, was the keynote speaker, inspiring a select group of students to search for knowledge relating tourism and innovation, and to think about...


Students from around the world prove future is bright for travel industry at GTTP event

December 3, 2014 12:16 pm Published by Leave your thoughts

By: Elizabeth Aston, Senior Advisor, Industry Affairs, Amadeus IT Group The GTTP annual student and teacher awards, which we hosted at the Amadeus Executive Briefing Centre in Sophia Antipolis, brought together gifted students from around the world to showcase their bright ideas to shape a sustainable future of travel. Twenty-two high school students from 11...


Read all about this year’s student/teacher conference in Nice, France!

November 25, 2014 2:01 pm Published by Leave your thoughts

This week 22 student winners from 11 nations are presenting their findings on “Technology and Sustainability” in travel destinations The Global Travel and Tourism Partnership (GTTP) is hosting its annual student/teacher conference at Le Meridien Nice in France from November 24 to November 28. Twenty-two high school students from 11 countries will share their finding...