Redundancy pay fuels gap-year tourism
Redundancy pay fuels gap-year tourism
19 August 2009An increasing number of young professionals who are finding themselves out of work due to the recession are embarking on gap-year travel.
That is according to Tom Griffiths, founder of gapyear.com, who noted that a number of demographics are turning to travel due to economic pressures, including those who have yet to attend university.
He said: "The growth in gap years has been fuelled by the recession. Younger guys are seeing the bank of mum and dad being stressed so they are not heading straight to university.
"There''s a number of young professionals in that category aged 25 to 35 who are taking their redundancy cash and heading off travelling around the world."
According to data released by responsibletravel.com on August 17th, the company has seen an eight per cent rise in the number of people enquiring about gap-year travel.
Volunteer holidays were the most popular form of tourism in years out, according to the figures, which also revealed an increase in the popularity of marine conservation projects.
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