ALTO Newsletter Spring 2022

Dear All, I hope you’re well.

This month’s highlight for the association is definitely the opportunity for our members and non-member industry friends to meet in Rome face-to-face! See who’s there, read more about the top quality programmes below and let me know if you’d like to join us – subject to confirmation from the hotel.

Another reason to celebrate in the first quarter of 2022 is that we received a record breaking 8! new membership applications from 3 agencies, 3 schools, 1 association and 1 service provider, please see their profiles below and send them a warm welcome message.

Based on our experience the #intled industry is gaining strength and confidence, but if you would like to see this in tangible numbers, please complete our short anonymous survey and let us produce the latest edition of the ALTO Pulse projection report many of you now use regularly in your business decision making process.

Talking about data collaboration, you can also join or re-activate your profile on the ALTO Trends Barometer tool, where you can follow the change in actual Monday arrival figures around the world – feel free contact me for more information.

In this Newsletter:

Last chance to register: ALTO conference Rome 22-24 April 2022
Welcome to new ALTO members in Q1
ALTO Best Practice Guidelines – promising talks between ALTO, FELCA and IALC board members
ALTO data collection projects: Industry Pulse and Trends Barometer

Please get in touch if you would like to find out more about our events, projects or membership entry criteria.

I look forward to hearing from you,

Kind regards, Reka

Reka Lenart
ALTO Association Manager

ALTO conference Rome2022

Industry Panel members at the Rome 2022 conference

This is the last week when we can accept registrations for the upcoming ALTO Professional Development and Networking conference held in Rome from 22nd-24th April 2022.
Learn from top speakers, join the stimulating and constructive conversations about the current state and the future of educational travel, network with fellow owners and directors, the real leaders of the international education industry.
If you’ve never been to an ALTO event before, please watch the Lisbon conference clip and register before 8th April.

Internationally renowned Keynote Speakers at #ALTOcpd Rome2022

Welcome to our new members!

AMTE Mexico
AMTE’s mission is to promote the culture of international education and to establish a quality standard and professionalize the industry through cooperation among all its players.

DBM International Education and Immigration
DBM helps international students make their dream of studying abroad come true, from planning to applying to the best institutions to advising on other aspects of the exchange.

EDEX Education and Exchange in Europe
EDEX has been working with students in Ireland since 1997. We are regarded as one of the most trusted companies in high school placements in Ireland.

Edvisor.io
Supported by the biggest network of agencies, institutions and service providers, with more than 10K registered users across 42 countries and exclusive partnerships with the best associations and industry organizations.

High Schools International
HSI is a global leader in education consultation, school placements and student welfare in the UK and Ireland. We offer help from registration to graduation, with over 300 partnerships across the UK and Ireland.

IE Intercambio Brazil
We have been helping students and professionals with exchange placements around the world since 1998. With franchises spread from north to south of Brazil and also abroad, we are one of the most traditional and awarded agencies in the industry.

InTuition Languages
InTuition Languages is a pioneer in the development of home tuition EFL courses: complete immersion programmes where students live and study with their own personal tutor.
Since 1992, we have been driven to provide language training excellence for every one of the more than 30,000 students who have trusted us to help them achieve their goals, whatever they may be.

St Andrew’s College Language Schools
St Andrew’s College Language Schools was established in 2002 with a head office in Glasgow city centre. We offer summertime, residential English language lessons with a cultural programme, for young learners aged 11-18, across Scotland and England.

Talks between ALTO, FELCA and IALC

The ALTO, FELCA and IALC Board held a promising online meeting recently to discuss a possible cooperation between these prestigious industry associations to jointly promote ALTO’s Best Practice Guidelines published last October.
Stay tuned to find out more details soon!

Read the ALTO Best Practice doc here

ALTO data collection projects

ALTO Industry Pulse
#intled leader sentiment projection report about business recovery to help you with your short and long term planning.
Complete the latest questionnaire before 10thApril – thank you!

ALTO Trends Barometer
Accurate, real-time, measurable trends showing weekly arrivals data at course providers around the world.
Join the project (schools) or re-active your profile here