As of the 24th March 2024 Libya launched a groundbreaking new Libya tourist e-visa scheme which makes visiting Libya a lot more accessible for tourists wanting to explore the country. Previously the State of Libya was one of the most complicated countries to visit as a tourist. Tales of extreme bureaucracy and complicated manoeuvres were […]

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Former Premier League football star Dave Kitson has been named as the new Nauru manager, with the announcement coming via the Nauru Soccer Federation and their Director of International Development YPT’s Gareth Johnson. The news was announced today via press release on the NSF website. It marks the latest in a deluge of new announcements […]

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The Young Pioneer Podcast Season 2 continues with another from-the-field episode recorded during YPT’s recent Horn of Africa tour in Eritrea! This two-segment episode of the Young Pioneer Podcast opens with an interview with YPT founder and CEO Gareth Johnson. Podcast host Justin Martell and Gareth discuss some exciting tours which YPT has announced for […]

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After the brief news of North Korea opening to Russian guests hit the news, we were as always inundated by enquiries for people wishing to visit the DPRK. You can read that story here. Sadly though, this did and does not mean that the country was opening to the western world. Although this did not, […]

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We here at YPT are very excited to announce the dates for the 2024 World Nomad Games, which will be held in Kazakhstan from September 8th to September 15th 2024; more excitingly, YPT will give you the opportunity to be there to be a part of the action – click here to read more. This […]

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Papua New Guinea has kicked off the year with the Port Moresby Riots 2024, again bringing in the question of if it is safe to travel to PNG right now. The answer as always as along the “its complicated” line. And while January tends to be the off season for tourism in Papua New Guinea, […]

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As of January 12th 2024, the US and UK launched a series of strikes on Yemen against the Iran-backed Houthi rebels, who have previously been targeting international shipping in the Red Sea in retaliation to the on-going conflicts in Palestine. Most of these targets hit by strikes have been in the far west of Yemen […]

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Russia is to start selling tours to North Korea, according to a state-run news agency Pravda announcement on 10 January 2024, but when exactly will this start, where will it be applicable and what does it mean for an overall North Korean reopening? YPT take a look. TLDR; long story short – North Korea has […]

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Nauru has relaunched the Nauru Soccer Federation in a bid to kickstart football on the world’s smallest island nation. Gareth Johnson has joined the board, alongside Acting President Kaz Cain, while fellow Englishman Charlie Pomroy has been named as national coach. A former English Premier League player is lined up to join the coaching staff […]

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The question that has been asked to us here at YPT at the end of 2020, 2021, 2022 and now 2023 – will North Korea open in 2024? We are excited to announce that yes, it’s most likely that it will reopen for tourism in April 2024. Although under what terms the North Koreans are […]

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