What do our members work for, and what is ALTO’s vision for the future?
ALTO works to promote valuable in-country language learning around the world, strengthen the quality of the partnerships between member organisations, and provide innovative market intelligence and professional development for the benefit of its members.
By doing so, ALTO aims to provide the best experiences for young people, who dream of learning new languages in foreign countries. ALTO works to strengthen our member organisations that help young people do just that.
ALTO supports language and educational travel opportunities by:
establishing criteria for Members’ Guarantees of Quality and the ALTO Charter, for the treatment and protection of participants in language and educational travel programmes
assisting in the development of “in country” language teaching and to lobby governments and official bodies to recognise such activity as education, an export product and a valuable sector of the tourism industry
identifying and promoting international acceptable guidelines for the provision of language and educational travel products and services
promoting the development of information technology that will benefit the cooperation between language travel agencies, language schools, and providers offering “in-country” language teaching, which in turn improve the benefits and service to students
increasing public awareness of the value of culturally oriented language travel programmes
hosting conferences, seminars, and promoting the exchange of literature and information for members
