Future of Travel Design Challenge Winners

Between July and November 2022, Young Change Agents partnered with Flight Centre Travel Group on the Future of Travel Youth Design Challenge. From the Northern Territory to Tasmania over 3,000 students participated in the challenge, with 150 entries submitted from 64 schools across Australia. The challenge? "How might we create innovative solutions to design the Future of Travel?"

The challenge was further split into 5 key themes, each covering different aspects of travel:

  1. Sustainability: How might we make travel more sustainable in order to protect our world?

  2. Inclusion and Accessibility: How might we increase inclusivity, access and affordability of travel?

  3. Culture and Identity: How might we enable travel to express and advocate for culture?

  4. Regional and Rural Development: How might we increase tourism to regional and rural Australia to engage and support local communities?

  5. Technology: How might we help travellers make better choices or improve their experiences? Bringing tech and tourism together to improve people's journeys.

Using design thinking, and led by talented educators across the country, young people worked in teams or as individuals to ideate solutions to reimagine the future of travel. This page highlights the top ideas that were submitted.

 

(Highly Commended) Reef Warriors

Helping Protect the Great Barrier reef through interactive projectors

New Idea

Queensland

culture: respect the adventure

Information for travellers on specific cultural and respectful behaviour significant to the travel areas

New Idea

South Australia

(Judge's Choice) Ecological Tourism

An app that rates how sustainable an airline company is with a number

New Idea

Western Australia

Fly an Drive

Once you stop flying, a car will start driving

New Idea

Western Australia

Mufasa's Monthlys

Reactivating Mount Gambier's empty shopfronts and creating lively festivals

New Idea

South Australia

(Judge's Choice) Rural Photography Aus

Making rural and regional travel more exciting through an annual photography competition

New Idea

South Australia

(Judge's Choice) Fresh and Wild Travel

An Eco friendly toiletries travel pack.

New Idea

South Australia

(Highly Commended) Ravell

Using technology to popularise rural areas by giving the best price accomodation

New Idea

Queensland

Sniff Reality

Helping people who've lost their physical abilities to connect with rural Australia

New Idea

New South Wales

(Judge's Choice) AirNav

Making travel at airports easier through Bluetooth connected app and visual aids.

New Idea

Western Australia

(Judge's Choice) Trinder #traveltinder

Promoting travel to interesting and overlooked locations through an easy to use app

New Idea

Queensland

(Highly Commended)Project EnterTrainMent

An all-in-one entertainment system to make train travel more appealing!

New Idea

Queensland

Pinpoint travel

Making travel more efficient for the wider community.

New Idea

Queensland

(Judges Choice) Inspire

The purpose of our project is to promote and educate and immerse all people in First Nation heritage and culture.

New Idea

Queensland

(Highly Commended)Travel Superfund Stock

Making travel affordable to everyone, through superfund investments

New Idea

South Australia

Data Mates

Providing connection between families and friends by funding data across the globe

New Idea

South Australia

Safer Travel

An app that can help travellers be more aware of the pollution levels of the destinations they are travelling to. 

New Idea

South Australia