Different Travel in the Media
See below for some articles our trips have been featured in. If you see us mentioned somewhere, do let us know where and when or send a link/scan to info@different-travel.com
29-March-12: The Southampton Venus Awards
Different Travel are very honoured to have been nominated for the Southampton Venus Awards Dot Com Award. Thank you everybody for your support. In addition, Lexi Quinton has been nominated for the Employee of the Year Award! Well done Lexi!
30-Sept-11: The Grantham Journal
Salvation Army members journey to the 'roof of the world'
26-Aug-11: The Lowestoft Journal
Lowestoft friends face Mount Everest challenge
16-Jun-11: Pick Me Up:
A Scorching Proposal
6-May-11: Evening Gazette
Hartburn dad's expedition to Inca site for Butterwick Hospice
16-Apr-11: Road.cc:
Mission Malawi 2012 launch at Look Mum No Hands this Thursday
17-Jan-11: Darlington and Stockton Times:
Over the Andes to help hospice
13-Jan-11: The Hampshire Chronicle:
Winchester jewellers take charity hike to the extreme
27-Jul-10: The Journal:
Hospice Walkers Battle Elements - Group raises £35,000 for St Oswald's
23-Jul-10: The Sunderland Echo:
It's a trek to get your teeth into
29-Jun-10:
Time Out:
Make the most out of your gap year: work your way around the world
5-Nov-09: The Gazette and Herald:
Malton businessman Rob Davies climbs Kilimanjaro to raise money for Ryedale Special Families
26-Sept-07: Jaunted
Volunteer Travel: Experience the Real Peru
18-Aug-07: The Guardian - Saturday
travel section: Mini Gaps
Can't spare a year? Get a gap fix in a fortnight - see Way to Goa
13-Aug-07: PR.com - Conservative Party Rwanda Social Action Project Boosts
Volunteer Travel
Fresh from volunteering on social action projects in Rwanda with David Cameron and the Conservative Party, trip
organisers Different Travel highlight the benefits of short-term volunteering and voluntourism.
Jun/Jul-07
Wanderlust: Is Voluntourism doing any good? The Debate
Different Travel promotes that well organised, ethical voluntourism benefits
locals in Wanderlust magazine
17-Apr-07 Telegraph: Avoiding the guilt trips on a feel-good holiday.
Doing something "worthwhile" with your annual leave has always held a certain
appeal for those with a social conscience: digging a well in an African village, perhaps, or painting an orphanage in India has got to be a better
way to spend time than lying on a beach topping up the tan.
06-Sep-06 Glasgow Herald:
You can't save the world, but holidays spent helping others make a big difference.
Painting and digging may not be your idea of an overseas holiday, but Rebecca McQuillan found her small contribution went a long way
27-Jul-06 Guardian Unlimited: Give and Take: Volunteering Holidays
How much can be achieved in just two weeks? Justine Reilly heads to Sri Lanka to find out.
Press Releases
22-Jan-08:
Volunteer Tourism 'one of the best ways to ensure tourism helps reduce poverty'
10-Aug-07:
Conservative Party Rwanda social action project boosts volunteer travel firm
04-Jun-07:
Different Travel Calls for an Ethical Code of Practice for Volunteering Companies
04-Dec-06:
Voluntourism growing because of 'ethical revolution' says Different Travel
If you are a member of the press and would like further information on Different Travel please do not hesitate to contact us!
