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Global Tours for the Gap Year

November 5, 2007 on 8:51 am | In Adventure Travel, Australia, Beachbooker, Cabinweb, London, Outdoors, Pacific Islands, Scotland, United Kingdom, Wales |

Isango, the online experience provider, and gapyear.com, a dominant online travel portal, have announced an exciting new partnership. This alliance will enable http://www.gapyear.com/ to provide their users with a broader range of colourful and offbeat travel experiences and, in turn, Isango will gain access to an untapped UK outbound market estimated to be worth more than £2 billion.

Tom Griffiths Founder of http://www.gapyear.com/, says,

“We are delighted to be working with Isango who have a fantastic product database and a great reputation for delivering a quality offering to the travel market. In our search of best of class they certainly tick all our boxes. Now that over 20 per cent of our users come from overseas, we are currently globalising our databases to provide a broader and more relevant offering to our expanding customer base”.

Ranjan Singh, CEO of Isango, comments,

“Entry to the fast growing, highly valuable, gap year market has been on our agenda for some time; however, there are still limited quality entry points. With the implementation of the new gapyear.com IT platform and database structure, an opportunity arose for us to enter this space. Gapyear.com is an exciting brand with a significant user base and as such is a great opportunity for us to reach independent travellers aged 18 – 35. The gap year market is aging as more people aged over 55 elect to take a gap year around retirement age to travel independently around the world. High spending individuals, who travel to the far corners of the world engaging in tours and activities, are clearly an interesting target market for Isango. Gapyear.com, as the dominant portal in this area, is adapting it’s offering to suit all age groups and so we see great potential ahead”.

About Isango

A travel experience and lifestyle brand founded in 2005 by former management consultants and executives from Expedia and Cendant/ebookers. Online booking allows travellers to book before they travel, avoiding the usual time wasting when they arrive. The site also provides recommended ‘must-do’ and ‘out-of-the-ordinary’ top picks on each country, complete with detailed information about the destination and the activities.

More information about Isango is available at http://www.isango.com/

About Gapyear.com

Established in 1998, www.gapyear.com provides young travellers with the opportunity to belong to an online community, share their experiences, seek good advice and purchase their travel items from a one-stop-shop. Gapyear.com continues to be the world’s largest gap year information source and community with over one million users annually.

Founders Tom Griffiths and Peter Pedrick are regarded as the leading authorities on ‘gap years’ in the UK and around the world, consulting governments and acting as media spokespeople on the gap year, an industry valued globally at over £5 billion*. (*2005 Mintel Gap Year Report)