HOW FAR HAVE WE COME?

The New Year is a customary time to be retrospective and prospective, even a little bit introspective. A quick glance back over our shoulder and a squint forward to the horizon looks like this for Make Travel Fair.

2007 Achievements

- Had our first go at web design and built a site for Make Travel Fair.
- Won the Travelmole Web Award for 'Best Online Education Site'.
- Won a place at the Striding Out Big Leap Business Plan workshop.
- Awarded Courvoisier The Future 500 One-to-Watch accolade for Travel & Leisure.

Our first year has been very much about establishing Make Travel Fair, gaining recognition within the travel industry for our message, and networking to establish a good contact base within the industry.

2008

This year we will be building on what we've learnt and taking Make Travel Fair on a trip around the world for 6 months to talk with those who have most contact with the sort of issues we raise online - The family-run guesthouse, the tour operator, the fisherman, the conservationist, the large hotel, the traveller...This trip will also allow us to reconnect with the experience of travelling on a tight budget, from planning travels, to buying tickets and finding accomodation to actually being on the road. We hope to better understand how we can reach out to the traveller through Make Travel Fair as a result. We will also be writing a book about our 6 months of travel and the conversation we have along the way.

A major goal of 2008 is to setup a bursary for young people who have a passion and desire to travel the world but can't quite afford to make it happen, or know how to.