GAP YEAR TRAVELLERS and BACKPACKERS
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Below is a host of different resources (part of this information is provided in relation to a presentation I gave at NECTM6)
Gap year websites and articles (please note these are for information only, I am not endorsing them or any products on this page)
- Gap year information from the Telegraph HERE
- Travel independent info website HERE
- Key travelling/backpacker routes around the world HERE
- Gapyear.com ‘What is a gap year?’ HERE (site offline in March 2021 but stated to be temporary so link left here for the current time)
Useful books
- The Big Trip: Your Ultimate Guide to Gap Years and Overseas Adventures (Lonely Planet)
- Google search here
Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) Travel Aware programme click HERE for information (scroll down for many resources)
- FCDO Gap Year travel specifically HERE (again scroll down for many resources)
- FCDO Facebook page HERE
- FCDO Twitter page HERE
- FCDO Press release Young Brits failing to get cover for adventurous pursuits abroad see HERE
- FCDO Travel insurance statistics see HERE
- FCDO British Behaviour Abroad report 2014 see HERE
- FCDO Adventure travel abroad play it safe poster see HERE
USEFUL APPS for travelling
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Advice, websites and various leaflets on travel health issues for young adult travellers (for information only)
- fitfortravel website for a large range of useful information leaflets
- Going on holiday? Be trip ready from NaTHNaC
- ABTA taking a gap year information here
- ABTA Balcony safety general information here including leaflet on Booze and Balconies information here
- Caroline’s Rainbow Foundation here
- Information from the BBC about the drug trade in Peru – the Mochilleros
- BBC report on dating apps increasing risk of STIs – here
- Sexual healh advice for backpackers from the bemused backpacker website here
- Sexual health abroad from DIC Copenhagen here
- NHS website, safer sex on holiday here
- ILGA maps for lesbian and gay rights maps (but look around this page for further useful resources)
- CDC Yellow Book on Study Abroad & Other International Student Travel here
- American Travel Health Nurse Association (ATHNA) Equitable Care for Transgender Travelers (2018) here
- Rabies resources here
- Water filtration information from fitfortravel here and video about the Aquapure system illustrated here and with subtitles here
