In the press
Dangers of the gap - Just four months after the death of teenager Georgia French in Peru, her parents are preparing to embark on a remarkable journey inspired by their daughter.
Gap year travel: Check insurance, father urges - A father left with a £25,000 bill after his son was injured in Vietnam has issued a warning to other gap-year travellers. Jeremy Skidmore reports.
Gap year tragedies - Alice Klein reports on why parents who have lost children on gap years back the scheme, despite the dangers.
Adventure on a budget for gap-year travellers is always risky - Gap-year travel has become big business over the past decade, with up to 200,000 people from Britain doing it every year – 130,000 of them school-leavers.
Parents concerned about students' gap-year safety - One in three gap-year adventures is cut short by an accident or crime, say the organisers of a conference on the safety of young travellers.
'One in three' gap year travellers will experience medical emergency or crime - One in three gap year adventures is spoiled by a serious accident, illness or crime, figures suggest.
Gap year website is legacy to Georgia - The family of an Oxford student killed while in Peru on her gap year have helped hundreds of youngsters with a website providing information to ‘gappers’ - but need more money to keep it running.
'Gap travel benefits still far outweigh the risks' - Don't let stories of gap year tragedies stop your child going abroad, says father of traveller killed in Peru.