GoPlay Sports partners with Global Impact Adventures

GoPlay Sports Tours are proud to announce an exciting, new partnership with Global Impact Adventures (GIA).

GIA have decades of experience in educational travel and voluntary work. GIA combines travel with a service element and sprinkles it with fun, to create a trip which transforms the lives of student travelers and those they go to help.

These experiences fill students with compassion and understanding of the environments they visit.

Travelers spend a number days on carefully-selected projects and the rest of the days are spent on immersive activities, providing an unrivalled educational experience.

With a belief in giving students a new perspective, GIA is a perfectly aligned with the well-established culture at GoPlay.

Co-founder Darren Lyons said: “These are exciting times in the travel industry and the opportunity to partner with Global Impact Adventures was one we jumped at.

“At GoPlay we have a firm grip on what it takes to build a sports tour with a cultural aspect and I know that Lucy’s attention to detail is driving similar trips at GIA with service and educational learning at the forefront.

“Educational travel and more specifically service travel is a huge growth area and I’m confident we will see the business flourish.”

Co-founder Lucy Ryan said: “We are delighted to be joining forces with GoPlay Sports who share our values and beliefs, and have themselves changed the lives of so many students through sports trips around the world.

“Darren and I have known and worked with each other for almost 20 years and it was our shared vision which brought us together to create GIA. We look forward to a partnership which continues to bring out the very best in future generations and prepare them to be the leaders of tomorrow.”

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