GTTP’s reach extends to all corners of the globe, providing young people with the help they require to go on to carve out successful futures within the travel and tourism sector.
The first programme was started in the United Kingdom in 1986 and programmes were soon added in Ireland, Hungary, Hong Kong and Canada.
Now, 17 countries belong to the GTTP family, with the USA an affiliate member. Those countries are Brazil, Canada, China, France, Hong Kong, Hungary, India, Ireland, Jamaica, Kenya, Nepal, New Zealand, Philippines, Russia, South Africa, Tanzania and the UK.
Each member country, supported by GTTP, has its own approach to teaching travel tourism while working with education ministries to ensure compliance with national standards.
GTTP Brazil is an educational programme involving more than 140,000 students with a three-fold mission to enable......
Canada’s programme, first launched in 1995, introduces and promotes careers in tourism to high school students across the country....
GTTP China was launched first in Ningbo and is now under the direction of Dr Hanqin Qiu at Nankai University...
GTTP was launched in France in March 2022. A pilot program since 2016, it is now available to all schools offering training in Travel and Tourism. The...
GTTP Hong Kong supports a three-year programme which offers students a gateway into further education, training and careers in travel and tourism....
The GTTP programme, for 14-18-year-olds, requires students to invest 220 classroom hours, usually over two years, with a strong emphasis on exposure t...
GTTP India was started in 2017 with just two pilot centres and 50 students and is now flourishing nationwide....
GTTP Ireland supports an introductory online course, Tourism Insight, which allows students to inform and explore......
Travel and tourism is perhaps the most important sector of the economy in Jamaica, which welcomes millions of visitors every year...
GTTP East Africa was launched in Kenya and over 1,400 students have gone through the programme nationwide....
The GTTP programme was introduced to New Zealand through Go with Tourism , a government-funded initiative encouraging new talent into the industry....
GTTP Philippines has established connection with various learning institutions around the region and will coordinate GTTP’s training programme with ...
GTTP Russia is housed at Junior Achievement Russia (JAR) and has grown rapidly since it became part of JAR in 2004. There were 32 classes in Moscow an...
South Africa introduced Tourism as a school subject in high schools in 1996. Today more than 4,000 teachers teach the subject to around 360,000 studen...
GTTP Tanzania was launched in 2014 with over 400 students participating in the programme....
The GTTP UK is managed by the Institute for Travel and Tourism (ITT) as part of its work with young people seeking careers in the industry. The ITT is...
NAF began its Academies of Hospitality and Tourism in 1986, when the first GTTP program was started in the UK. Today NAF has 82 Academies of Hospitali...
