Welcome to the BETA Youth Travel Workshop - BETA Youth Travel Workshop

1 day, 120 companies, over 2,000 appointments = lots of business

The 2016 BETA Youth Travel Workshop offered delegates a full day of trading and networking.

We had our highest number of delegates to date at this year’s event and more than 2,000 appointments took place during the course of the day.

Held at Arsenal Football Club delegates had the opportunity to experience the fantastic conference facilities on offer, plus get a behind the scenes look courtesy of the stadium tours team. Click here to read the event news update.

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We have surveyed delegates attending for their views on the timings, frequency, content, quality, business generated etc to view more statistics please click here

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If you are seeking to build or renew business connections in the youth, student and educational travel industry, this is the event for you!

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Testimonials

"The BETA workshop enables us to meet many of our existing clients and update them with the latest products at our attractions, as well as establishing new contacts within the youth Travel and Education sector- and all under one roof! "

Merlin Entertainments, UK

"This was our first time at a BETA youth travel workshop. The event exceeded our expectations and we will definitely be back next year."

Cambridge Dream, UK

"The BETA workshop was a wonderful opportunity for a study abroad provider to gain access to new ventures and products for educational groups. I strongly recommend this event."

CIEE, UK

"The Workshop provided an excellent opportunity for Safestay to meet current business partners and forge stronger relationships and also meet new potential partners, which was very exciting. I well structured day with good quality, business focussed attendees."

SafeStay, UK

"An excellent event to gather leads and to meet new prospects. Highly recommended. Great organisation and great overall support from the organisers."

English for Less Education and Travel, UK

"The workshop is a perfect opportunity to meet existing partners or get to know new partners/companies! "

Alpetour Touristische, Germany

“YHA very much benefit from being able to network and conclude business with key contacts within the sector”

YHA England & Wales, UK

"I found the Youth Travel Workshop to be a fantastic event to network with other youth and educational travel industry professionals and look forward to attending next years event already."

StudentUniverse, UK

“I will recommend this event to a lot of people in group business for youngsters."

Itermar Tour Operator, Italy

"After not having attended this event for a few years, I was absolutely delighted with this excellent event. BETA did a fantastic job from start to finish and the quality of the agents that I meet with was extremely high. I would not hesitate in recommending this event to anyone involved within the Youth Sector. "

Kingswood (Inspiring Learning), UK

"BETA Workshop has always been a well-organised event with quality contacts. This year the BETA workshop was better than evenr. More international buyers and serious agents looking to buy! The BETA Team are helpful and go out of their way to understand our business. Thank you so much for going the extra mile! Good work BETA."

Anglophiles Academic, UK

“This has been the best BETA Workshop to date! I was impressed with the number and calibre of the hosted buyers this year and the Emirates stadium is the perfect venue for an event like this. As always, the BETA team organised everything perfectly! I would not hesitate to recommend this event which I found to be both productive and enjoyable.”

Britannia Student Services, UK

"Very well organised event and important in the youth travel calendar. The quality of hosted buyers is very good and everyone is serious to develop business."

Celtic Group Hostels, Ireland

"If the positive responses we received turn into new business, I think this will generate a huge growth to our business"

Theatre Workout, UK

"The workshop is a great platform to refresh existing contact and to be introduced to new ideas and suppliers in the Youth Travel Market. It shakes off the dust and creates new ideas. Fantastic organisation. Thank you."

place2B, UK

“Our company has attended the BETA annual Youth Travel Workshop for a number of years now. The event is always very professionally run – both leading up to and during the event. The location is always good and from our personal experience we find this day is a great way of both keeping in contact with existing clients, but also a great opportunity to make new associations and business partnerships within the youth travel trade. Well worth attending in our opinion! .”

Coach Direct, UK

“The BETA workshop was very well organized, it seems the many years of experience of the organization are notorious. I had the opportunity to meet many potential future partners, and I enjoyed the complementary activities, thank you very much! ”

Hola People (Hosted Buyer)

"I enjoyed the workshop very much and made a number of good new contacts!"

Carl Duisberg Centren Intertraining & Consult GmbH, Germany

“The BETA Youth Travel Workshop offers a refreshing change from the traditional educational travel workshops. There is always a great atmosphere and a sense of common interest with all sectors of the industry represented. For us, having the opportunity to meet with hosted buyers is of utmost importance and BETA delivered!”

ABC Languages UK

"As a first time participant, the BETA Youth Travel Workshop gave us an ideal platform to break into the youth market and make new contacts. The event was well organised and the standard of buyers we met was of a very high caliber. ."

Thames River Services, UK

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