Here at Pinpoint Travel Health, we have geared up for one of the peaks of the gap travel year, the post-Christmas and New Year period, by creating a brand-new free resource, to help protect gap year travellers of all ages.
Not satisfied with just putting advanced travel health planning technology at the fingertips of everyday individual, family and corporate travellers – we have looked at all of the components of gap year travel health and safety, when compiling our guide.
Regardless of whether you are a traditional gap-year adventurer, taking a year out before university or your first full-time job, or an older ‘gapper’ planning a sabbatical or rucksack adventure round the world, the new booklet offers a different take on what backpackers need to consider when in far-flung locations and off the beaten track.
Gap year travel, in this guide, is viewed primarily through a travel health perspective, with this forming part of a wider risk management focus on worldwide travel within the booklet too.
It’s also supported by some key blogs that may assist you at our website, such as this one relating to this year’s Race Across the World across Asia.
So once you have the turkey and tinsel out of the way, and have seen all your relatives and done the rounds of everyone you need to see before you take off on your worldwide adventure, grab yourself a copy. Have a good read and you may discover a few things that have not yet been covered off within your gap year planning.
What is the gap year travel health guide about?
‘Pinpointing Your Gap Year’s Travel Health Needs’ recognises that staying healthy whilst overseas is a fundamental requirement for anyone wanting to get the most out of their globe-trotting experience. It highlights the diseases that could make that problematic but also demonstrates that the traditional ways of viewing which travel vaccinations are required by gap year adventurers travelling to different countries are not completely satisfactory. Nor are they personalised to the individual trip and traveller. And they can sometimes hit gap year travellers in the pocket, totally unnecessarily.
How can our gap year travel health guide help you?
The guide highlights how our Pinpoint Travel Health service can help gap year travellers get around this issue and have definitive and pinpointed guidance on what travel vaccinations and antimalarials they require, for their own unique itinerary, times of travel, activities and existing medical conditions.
But that’s not all. Other types of stay-safe planning are explored, along with what to pop in the backpack for good travel health. Practical tips that can help steer backpackers past food and drink, altitude, cultural and theft risks are also provided.
What else does the Pinpoint Travel Health gap year guide cover?
Specific sections of the new booklet focus on women’s safe and healthy travel, children’s travel and that of more mature globetrotters. There is also a focus on working and volunteering abroad, how to protect the budget whilst overseas and what Apps might prove useful.
The gap year guide is a brilliant way to focus the mind of anyone heading off for a long-term global journey around many different countries and zones. It is also something that should tick the box of parents who want to keep their kids safe, as they find their wings.
Just download it below, or opt for a largely text version here.
Should you then see the benefits of knowing precisely which travel vaccinations and antimalarials you will need, for your gap year trip and your gap year adventure alone, as well as which you do not need, order a Pinpoint Travel Health Brief today.