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2009 sees a year of transition for the English Language Travel Association of South Africa (ELTASA).
For the last 12 months, the youth travel industry in South Africa has been in the process of establishing a new association which will represent every area of youth travel in the destination – accommodation, volunteers and internships, transport and tours, and education. The new body is aligned with and based on the current WYSTC model. It is known as SAYTC – South African Youth and Travel Confederation. There are four components of SAYTC:
- BSA (Backpackers South Africa) for accommodation,
- VolSA (Volunteers South Africa) for all volunteer, work and internship companies,
- TATSA (Tours and Transport South Africa) for all travel, tour and transport companies and
- EduSA (Education South Africa) for all language centres, educational institutions, youth exchange programmes and summer schools.
The main purpose of EduSA is to represent everything that has to do with Edu-Tourism in South Africa, and to allow educational centres involved with education in South Africa, whether this pertains to foreign or local clients, the opportunity to benefit from belonging to a national organization that has countrywide, regional and local interests at heart, while also providing the best possible platform for promoting South Africa as a major destination for youth travel.
ELTASA/EduSA has finalised its new constitution and membership documentation. EduSA has already begun its drive to recruit new centres for membership and to improve the branding of the association both nationally and internationally.
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Over the
past decade South Africa has increasingly entered into
the EFL industry, and has become an extremely popular
destination for English Language Travellers. As a result there
has been a sharp increase in the number of
English Language
Centres
offering English language tuition and accompanying services.
After a year of hard work and planning,
ELTASA
(English Language and Travel Association of South Africa) was
constituted in June 2003 with 9 founding members...
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