Young travellers get holiday advice from UK Foreign Office via app

August 29, 2012 By 5 Comments

In a first for the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office, the government body has developed an application aimed at providing travel advice to those about to embark on a gap year.

The Plan.Pack.Explore service, incidentally available as a pocket sized book as well, provides advice on health issues, visas and generally staying safe as well as what the FCO can (and can’t) do to help.

Figures quoted in a statement claim a quarter of 16 to 24 year olds travelled without insurance in the past six months.

The application, which is available for iPad, iPhone and Android devices, is part of the FCO’s ongoing Know Before You Go campaign launched more than 10 years ago in conjunction with travel industry partners.

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Linda Fox About Linda Fox

Linda Fox is a reporter for Tnooz. For the past six years she has worked as a freelance journalist across a range of B2B titles including Travolution, ABTA Magazine, Travelmole and the Business Travel Magazine.

In this time she has also undertaken corporate projects for a number of high profile travel technology, travel management and research companies.

Prior to her freelance career she covered hotels and technology news for Travel Trade Gazette for seven years. Linda joined TTG from Caterer & Hotelkeeper where she worked on the features desk for more than five years.

Comments

  1. Stuart L says:
    August 30, 2012 at 5:20 am

    Props to the FCO here. Like the country advice, countdown & find nearest embassy sections. Still checking. Good looking non commercial app

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  2. Lucy L says:
    August 30, 2012 at 7:28 am

    I like this app – I think that it was a great idea, much better than just publishing a leaflet.
    The countdown is great and the where in the world thing is fun!!

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  3. Dave says:
    August 30, 2012 at 9:51 am

    Can someone point a link to the android version? Not seeing it anywhere

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  4. Dave says:
    August 30, 2012 at 10:13 am

    Thank you Linda!

    Reply

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