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According to the dictionary, a “gap year” is a term referred to as a prolonged period between two major life stages—a year that a young person spends working and/or travelling between leaving school and starting university. Here is its brief history:
1960s: Where It All Began
The origination of the “gap year” concept came in the decade following the Second World War when youth travel and cultural exchange was discussed amongst governments as a useful tool to create more of a global understanding to prevent future global wars. However, the first gap years actually started in the UK in the 1960s when the 1)Baby-Boomer generation in the midst of 2)the Swinging Sixties headed off to India on the 3)infamous 4)Hippie Trails, inventing the independent travel market. And in 1967 5)Nicholas Maclean-Bristol set up Project Trust, an educational 6)trust, and sent his first three students to Addis Ababa, inventing the gap year volunteer 7)placements market. These have been the two key elements to the gap year market ever since—“independent travel” and “volunteer placements.”
1970s: The Pioneers and the Growth
Australian Graham “Screw” Turner, based in London in 1973, loaded a 8)double-decker bus with the first paying customers and drove them to Kathmandu. They arrived three weeks late. Top Deck Travel, the company he founded, still exists today. In the same year a young Brit by the name of Tony Wheeler headed off on an 9)overland trip across Asia. His need for basic travel information inspired the book Across Asia on the Cheap and was the first 10)title under his Lonely Planet brand, which became the world’s largest travel guide publisher. With a tour company and self-help travel advice, the independent travel market was born. In 1979 another Australian, Dick Porter, founded 11)STA Travel to bring in the final piece of the puzzle. It was a 12)high street travel agent for students and youth (those under 26) with which he was able to develop global youth travel as he opened student travel agencies around the world.
1980s: Steady Growth
In the UK in the 1980s the Baby-Boomers were settling into family life with their young children and so traveling less, and the next generation were influenced by the obsession for money, careers and wealth. The housing market 13)crash meant fewer funds available for parents to fund youth travel. Steady UK and global growth continued as STA Travel opened up 14)branches around the world.
1990s: The Boom
A combination of the Baby-Boomer’s children reaching 18 (whose parents encouraged world travel as they did in their youth), the UK coming out of recession and new, exciting, colorful media channels to bring gap year products to market resulted in an explosion of activity in the UK as gap year travel and gap year volunteering took off pre-, during, and post-university. Demand grew, prices for air travel fell, and the roots of it becoming a 15)rite of passage were set.
The modern gap year pioneers came in the form of Tom Griffiths and Peter Pedrick who brought the gap year market onto the web in 1998 with the launch of www.gapyear.com. The two pioneers have invented products, 16)offerings, phrases, and concepts that form the skeleton of the global gap year industry seen today. Known as the gap year 17)guru, Tom Griffiths is recognized as a global authority on gap years and acts as a media spokesperson around the world.
根据字典的解释，“间隔年”指的是在人生两个主要阶段之间的一段延长了的过渡时期——青年人在高中毕业之后、进入大学之前，用一年时间去工作或旅行。下面一起来看看间隔年的发展简史：
20世纪60年代：起源
二战后的十年里，各国政府开始提倡青年旅行和文化交流，从而有效地增进全人类间的共识，以防止世界性大战再次发生。这就是“间隔年”概念的缘起。不过，第一个真正的“间隔年”始于20世纪60年代的英国。当时，正处于“激情动荡的60年代”中期的婴儿潮一代前往印度，踏上那臭名昭著的“嬉皮之路”，由此开辟了“独立旅游市场”。1967年，尼古拉斯•麦克莱恩—布里斯托成立了一个教育信托基金——“事业信托”，并把他的头三位学生送到埃塞俄比亚首都亚的斯亚贝巴，从而开拓了间隔年志愿者职位介绍市场。自此，“独立旅行”和“志愿者职位介绍”成为了间隔年市场的两个基本要素。
20世纪70年代：开拓者与发展
1973年，居住在伦敦、人称“螺丝钉”的澳大利亚人格雷厄姆•特纳驾驶一辆双层电车，载着他的第一批客户，花了三个星期的时间到达尼泊尔首都加德满都。由他建立的“顶层旅行公司”至今仍然存在。同年，年轻的英国人托尼•惠勒经陆路游走亚洲。对旅行基本资讯的渴望激励他写下了《穷游亚洲》一书，这成为后来他所创立的世界上最大的旅行指南出版社——“孤独星球”所出的第一本书。在旅行社和自助游指南的共同作用下，独立旅行的市场诞生了。1979年，另一名澳大利亚人迪克•波特创办了STA旅行社，为这一事业的发展画上了决定性的一笔。STA旅行社是一家专为学生和青年（26岁以下）服务的商业旅行服务中介，在世界各地都有分支机构，这让波特得以推动全球青年旅游业的发展。
20世纪80年代：稳步发展
20世纪80年代的英国，婴儿潮一代开始组建各自的家庭并有了自己的孩子。于是，他们减少了旅行，而他们的下一代则沉迷于金钱、事业和财富。住房市场的危机意味着父母能提供给孩子旅行的经费变少了。不过，随着STA旅行社在世界各地开设分店，英国和全球的间隔年事业还在继续稳步发展着。
20世纪90年代：繁荣时期
婴儿潮一代的孩子们即将满18周岁（他们的父母鼓励他们像自己年轻时那样到世界各地旅行），与此同时，英国的经济也从萧条中走了出来。崭新的、令人兴奋而又丰富多样的媒介渠道把各种间隔年产品推向了市场。于是，大学前、大学期间，以及大学之后的间隔年旅行和间隔年志愿服务活动在英国蓬勃发展。随着需求增长、机票降价，间隔年已经被确立为一条“成长必经之路”。
现代“间隔年”的先驱者当属汤姆•格里菲思和彼得•佩德里克。1998年，他们开办了网站www.gapyear.com，将间隔年的市场扩展到了网络世界。这两位先驱者通过推出产品、课程、语汇和相关概念建构起了如今我们见到的“间隔年”的全球产业框架。汤姆•格里菲思被誉为“间隔年领袖”，并被公认为是间隔年方面的全球权威，还作为一位媒介发言人活跃在世界各地。
1960s: Where It All Began
The origination of the “gap year” concept came in the decade following the Second World War when youth travel and cultural exchange was discussed amongst governments as a useful tool to create more of a global understanding to prevent future global wars. However, the first gap years actually started in the UK in the 1960s when the 1)Baby-Boomer generation in the midst of 2)the Swinging Sixties headed off to India on the 3)infamous 4)Hippie Trails, inventing the independent travel market. And in 1967 5)Nicholas Maclean-Bristol set up Project Trust, an educational 6)trust, and sent his first three students to Addis Ababa, inventing the gap year volunteer 7)placements market. These have been the two key elements to the gap year market ever since—“independent travel” and “volunteer placements.”
1970s: The Pioneers and the Growth
Australian Graham “Screw” Turner, based in London in 1973, loaded a 8)double-decker bus with the first paying customers and drove them to Kathmandu. They arrived three weeks late. Top Deck Travel, the company he founded, still exists today. In the same year a young Brit by the name of Tony Wheeler headed off on an 9)overland trip across Asia. His need for basic travel information inspired the book Across Asia on the Cheap and was the first 10)title under his Lonely Planet brand, which became the world’s largest travel guide publisher. With a tour company and self-help travel advice, the independent travel market was born. In 1979 another Australian, Dick Porter, founded 11)STA Travel to bring in the final piece of the puzzle. It was a 12)high street travel agent for students and youth (those under 26) with which he was able to develop global youth travel as he opened student travel agencies around the world.
1980s: Steady Growth
In the UK in the 1980s the Baby-Boomers were settling into family life with their young children and so traveling less, and the next generation were influenced by the obsession for money, careers and wealth. The housing market 13)crash meant fewer funds available for parents to fund youth travel. Steady UK and global growth continued as STA Travel opened up 14)branches around the world.
1990s: The Boom
A combination of the Baby-Boomer’s children reaching 18 (whose parents encouraged world travel as they did in their youth), the UK coming out of recession and new, exciting, colorful media channels to bring gap year products to market resulted in an explosion of activity in the UK as gap year travel and gap year volunteering took off pre-, during, and post-university. Demand grew, prices for air travel fell, and the roots of it becoming a 15)rite of passage were set.
The modern gap year pioneers came in the form of Tom Griffiths and Peter Pedrick who brought the gap year market onto the web in 1998 with the launch of www.gapyear.com. The two pioneers have invented products, 16)offerings, phrases, and concepts that form the skeleton of the global gap year industry seen today. Known as the gap year 17)guru, Tom Griffiths is recognized as a global authority on gap years and acts as a media spokesperson around the world.
根据字典的解释，“间隔年”指的是在人生两个主要阶段之间的一段延长了的过渡时期——青年人在高中毕业之后、进入大学之前，用一年时间去工作或旅行。下面一起来看看间隔年的发展简史：
20世纪60年代：起源
二战后的十年里，各国政府开始提倡青年旅行和文化交流，从而有效地增进全人类间的共识，以防止世界性大战再次发生。这就是“间隔年”概念的缘起。不过，第一个真正的“间隔年”始于20世纪60年代的英国。当时，正处于“激情动荡的60年代”中期的婴儿潮一代前往印度，踏上那臭名昭著的“嬉皮之路”，由此开辟了“独立旅游市场”。1967年，尼古拉斯•麦克莱恩—布里斯托成立了一个教育信托基金——“事业信托”，并把他的头三位学生送到埃塞俄比亚首都亚的斯亚贝巴，从而开拓了间隔年志愿者职位介绍市场。自此，“独立旅行”和“志愿者职位介绍”成为了间隔年市场的两个基本要素。
20世纪70年代：开拓者与发展
1973年，居住在伦敦、人称“螺丝钉”的澳大利亚人格雷厄姆•特纳驾驶一辆双层电车，载着他的第一批客户，花了三个星期的时间到达尼泊尔首都加德满都。由他建立的“顶层旅行公司”至今仍然存在。同年，年轻的英国人托尼•惠勒经陆路游走亚洲。对旅行基本资讯的渴望激励他写下了《穷游亚洲》一书，这成为后来他所创立的世界上最大的旅行指南出版社——“孤独星球”所出的第一本书。在旅行社和自助游指南的共同作用下，独立旅行的市场诞生了。1979年，另一名澳大利亚人迪克•波特创办了STA旅行社，为这一事业的发展画上了决定性的一笔。STA旅行社是一家专为学生和青年（26岁以下）服务的商业旅行服务中介，在世界各地都有分支机构，这让波特得以推动全球青年旅游业的发展。
20世纪80年代：稳步发展
20世纪80年代的英国，婴儿潮一代开始组建各自的家庭并有了自己的孩子。于是，他们减少了旅行，而他们的下一代则沉迷于金钱、事业和财富。住房市场的危机意味着父母能提供给孩子旅行的经费变少了。不过，随着STA旅行社在世界各地开设分店，英国和全球的间隔年事业还在继续稳步发展着。
20世纪90年代：繁荣时期
婴儿潮一代的孩子们即将满18周岁（他们的父母鼓励他们像自己年轻时那样到世界各地旅行），与此同时，英国的经济也从萧条中走了出来。崭新的、令人兴奋而又丰富多样的媒介渠道把各种间隔年产品推向了市场。于是，大学前、大学期间，以及大学之后的间隔年旅行和间隔年志愿服务活动在英国蓬勃发展。随着需求增长、机票降价，间隔年已经被确立为一条“成长必经之路”。
现代“间隔年”的先驱者当属汤姆•格里菲思和彼得•佩德里克。1998年，他们开办了网站www.gapyear.com，将间隔年的市场扩展到了网络世界。这两位先驱者通过推出产品、课程、语汇和相关概念建构起了如今我们见到的“间隔年”的全球产业框架。汤姆•格里菲思被誉为“间隔年领袖”，并被公认为是间隔年方面的全球权威，还作为一位媒介发言人活跃在世界各地。