Get the New Gap Year Guide With a ‘Stay Safe, Stay Healthy’ Focus

Pinpoint Travel Health – the company that puts advanced travel health planning technology at the fingertips of everyday individual, family and corporate travellers – has created a brand-new free resource, to help protect gap year travellers of all ages.

Regardless of whether they are traditional gap-year adventurers, taking a year out before university or their first full-time job, or older gappers 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, which the booklet also provides. This is what makes it so different to all the other gap year collateral out there.

'Pinpointing Your Gap Year’s Travel Health Needs’ recognises that staying healthy whilst overseas is a fundamental requirement for those who want 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.

The guide highlights how the 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 sickness, cultural and theft risks are also provided.  

Specific sections of the booklet focus on women’s safe and healthy travel, children’s, 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.

Head to https://pinpointtravelhealth.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/gapyearguide2025.pdf to download it, or get a text version from the gap year travel tab.

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Editors notes

PinPoint Travel Health is an advanced software-driven travel health and vaccination platform that helps any traveller stay healthy during their exploration of the world. It provides provides comprehensive and personalised Travel Health Briefs. These equip travellers with all of the essential information and recommendations specific to their travel destination, no matter how remote or off-the-beaten-track. it includes potential hazards associated with the destination or itinerary. It also lists all recommended and required vaccinations and uses advanced algorithms to check the clinical appropriateness of vaccines and antimalarials, so as to prevent unwanted drug interactions with existing medications.