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Ireland In Top Countries for Gap Year Travel

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The Gap Year may seem a thing of the past, but there are signs that this special time in a young person’s life will be returning. In a survey by Bounce, the international source for finding Left Luggage offices, the leading countries for a Gap Year may surprise people 

Ireland Number Two for Gap Year Holidays

In the number one spot is the Netherlands and in number two is Ireland, followed by Switzerland, Greece and Japan taking the top five countries. Many people will have images of tropical Asian beaches and full moon parties in their Gap Year dreams.  

However, only South Korea and Japan in Asia make the top ten. Eight of the top ten countries are in Europe. They are Netherlands, Ireland, Switzerland, Greece, Czech Republic, UK, Austria, and Denmark. 

Countries that would have been popular in previous years are further down the list of 53 countries surveyed. They include the United States at 37, Australia at 38 and Vietnam at 35. The home of the full moon party, Thailand is at 26, below India at 23. 

Recent world events surrounding the pandemic would have affected this list and formerly popular counties are seeing the result of public perception on travelling there.

Countries for Gap Year Travel
Kho Pha Ngan – Thailand

The survey used a number of categories to identify the best of the best and rate them. 

Safety – Switzerland 

Hostels – Maldives 

Quality of Hostels – Netherlands 

Bars/Clubs – UK 

Attractions – Ireland 

Beer Prices – Germany 

Volunteering – South Africa 

You can see the full list of the Gap Year Index here 

The survey used the following methods of gathering the information to collate the top countries.   

Methodology used by Bounce 

The safety rating and price of a beer were sourced from Numbeo

Number of volunteering projects was sourced from Volunteer World and Go Overseas.

Number of clubs and bars and number of attractions were sourced from Tripadvisor.

Number of hostels and their average rating was sourced from Hostelworld.

We then divided the country’s area in square miles by these figures to discover the number of hostels, clubs/bars, and attractions per square mile. 

Finally, they gave each country a normalized score out of ten for each of these factors before taking an average of these for the overall score. Experience the magic of Ireland, which is one of the top Countries for gap year Travel, with our in-depth travel guide to Ireland

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Joan Scales
Joan Scales
Award-winning journalist, Joan has been writing about travel and tourism for many years principally for The Irish Times and lately for travel2ireland. Joan has appeared many times on television and radio talking about the business of travel and all its component strands. She is also a public speaker and has appeared at many international conventions and conferences.

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