Youth Travel On the Rise

Good news. According to a Detroit Free Press report: “The student and youth travel market is a huge 20% segment of all the travelers in the world. Among the fastest-growing segments, it includes not only college students age 25 and under, but increasing numbers of middle- and high-schoolers and even elementary children on group day or overnight school trips for band, choir, church, sports or science, civics and language classes.” While the article doesn’t identify a study to support the data, it also insitsts: “Children who start traveling when they are young become lifelong travelers. They are more likely to travel in high school. They’re more likely to study abroad in college. And they’re more likely to carry their love of travel into adulthood.” Ah, addicts, just like us.

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