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Travel Safety & Cultural Awareness

Gap Year and Independent Travel Safety & Awareness Workshop

Travel in all it’s forms; from gap years and independent travel to organised expeditions and Career Breaks, should be an unforgettable experience and provide you with memories to last a lifetime.

However statistics tell us that 1 in 4 gap year travellers experience some form of ‘serious incident’ in the course of their travels and the risks should not be ignored.

We will help you to ensure that your trip of a lifetime is unforgettable for all the right reasons.

Let us help you reduce the risks you face and prepare properly for your travel experience with our services.

Our Gap Year and Independent Travel Safety & Awareness workshop (GYITSA), provides candidates with all the information required to plan and undertake their travel more safely.

The workshop covers Personal Safety;Travel Safety; Destination Advice; Transport Options; Travel Health; Travel Equipment; accommodation; Documentation; Visas; Insurance; Cash / Credit Cards; Cultural Awareness; budgets; Ethical and Responsible Travel; Returning Home; our experiences and highlights.

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Consultancy Services

At Beyond The Blue we provide a Consultancy Service for groups thinking of undertaking any form of travel. We advise on destinations, risk, cultural awareness, travel equipment or all of the other subjects we cover in our Gap Year and Independent Travel Safety & Awareness workshop (GYITSA).

This service enables groups to prepare for their travels in a comprehensive manner and allows then to travel more safely in the knowledge that they have prepared well.

Once a particular need has been identified, we offer as part of this consultancy process, one-to-one or group sessions on specific subjects highlighted in our training needs analysis.

Groups travel comes many different guises; independent expeditions, volunteering groups, work assignments, school / university / educational trips, business trips and many more. The needs of these individual groups may vary significantly and our consultancy services reflects this.

For more details of our consultancy service please call us on 0845 602 55 95 or Contact Us.

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