Peace through Tourism News

Responsible Travel is Peaceful Travel

During National Travel and Tourism Week, SYTA celebrates how travel fosters essential peacebuilding experiences for young people by helping them to navigate differences, learn compromise and develop communications skills across barriers.
Responsible Travel is Peaceful Travel…. PEACE, PASS IT ON!

eSYTA New, April 28, 2025

Global Citizens Challenge - Peace Pass it On

In February, the SYTA Youth Foundation partnered with Your Big Year to host the virtual Global Citizens Challenge.
This event brings together youth from around the globe and challenges them to build positive bridges between diverse cultures while introducing them to new cultures, languages, and friends. This year we had over 350 youth participants from 56 countries! This resulted in over 96 hours of participation, 900+ friendships made and more than 2,500 ideas voiced in the International Hub.

We had an amazing panel of guest speakers from the travel industry that included Anjuli King (Visit Savannah), Beth Beccone (Peak Group Travel), Danielle Christian (Juliette Gordon Low), George Nimmo (Travel Resource Consultants), Heather Thies (Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force), Lee Callicutt (Visit Montgomery), Nick Romeo (Guest Services), and Norm Hull (Peace through Tourism). Join us again in Savannah this August (2025).