05/22/2018

Youth Travel Group Ensures Trips Go On for Ohio Students

It also mobilized its members to ensure the trips would still occur

When travel company Discovery Tours of Mayfield Village cancelled numerous planned school trips for thousands of Ohio seventh and eighth graders, the Student Youth Travel Association cancelled their membership for breaching its code of ethics. But SYTA didn’t stop there: It also mobilized its members to ensure that the trips would still take place.

“I am so proud to say that as of now, we are not aware of any Ohio kids who are unable to take their planned school trips,” said SYTA Executive Director Carylann Assante, CAE, in a press release. “SYTA, the SYTA Youth Foundation, and a large number of our individual members were so disappointed that these kids were about to lose the opportunity to have a life-changing travel experience, we all came together to find every resource that we could.”

Assante said the SYTA Youth Foundation has donated more than $60,000, and SYTA has helped organize more than $200,000 in in-kind contributions, including comped accommodations and amenities at significantly reduced discounts, to ensure that the student trips to Washington, DC; Chicago; Gettysburg; and Colonial Williamsburg could still happen.

Please select this link to read the complete article from Associations Now.