The World Youth Student and Educational Travel Confederation was formed in 2006. It has a network of 5000 locations in 118 countries.
The International Student Travel Confederation was a non-profit organisation founded in 1949 with a goal to secure and inform students of cheaper and or tax free travel. Working in more than 100 countries. It merged with the Federation of Youth Travel Organisation in 2006 to form a new organisation based in Amsterdam.[1]