World Youth Festival Guide Recruitment Open

Rosmolodezh's More Than a Trip program has launched a recruitment campaign for guides to work at the WYF 2024. There will be eight tours for the participants and guests of the world's largest youth event of 2024, which will be devoted to the past and present of the World Youth Festival and the development of the Sirius Educational Center and the surrounding areas, such as Rosa Khutor, Krasnaya Polyana, Matsesta and others.

Tourism professionals, bloggers, and other people over the age of 18 can become guides. Applicants must go through the selection process, which consists of three stages. Applicants must apply on the website by January 15, 2024. From January 16 to 30, 1,000 applicants will be selected to participate in an online training, study the standards of useful trips for young people under the More Than a Trip program, and test their knowledge in a final test. In early February, their works will be evaluated by methodologists and representatives of the Guides of Meanings community, who are helping at the Russia International Exhibition and Forum (VDNH).

Finally, 400 people will be selected to lead thematic tours during the WYF 2024. It is noteworthy that the guides will lead tours in Russian, English, Chinese, Arabic, Spanish, Portuguese, and French.

The guides will arrive from February 15. The remaining participants will join the Guides of Meanings community. After the Festival, all participants will receive advanced training certificates.

"As guides of meanings, we show young people possible ways to realize their potential. By getting to know the beauty and diversity of our homeland's cultures, young people learn to feel the world around them in a new way. They are inspired to study Russian achievements," said Andrey Okunev from Moscow. Andrey is a participant of the Russian Guides of Meanings Contest and a guide at the Russia International Exhibition and Forum.

Along with Andrey, Timofei Bronstein from Moscow and Anastasiia Silina from Samara will be among the first contestants.

"For me, being part of this project is a new experience and a new city. I expect to meet people who are interested in learning something unique, not just in a tour. I would like to meet those who are interested in such a field study of a new territory. We will be able to do it together," Timofei Bronstein said.

"The World Youth Festival is a platform for communication that will bring together activists from all over the world. I plan to participate in various events, develop and lead tours both within the Festival area and beyond," said Anastasiia Silina.

14 welcome desks will appear in Sirius at the Fisht Stadium, Sochi Railway Station, Sochi Airport, 10 hotels and other venues for everyone to register for tours, learn about the More Than a Trip program and its projects and ask questions.

Overview:

The World Youth Festival will take place in 2024 according to the decree of Russian President Vladimir Putin on the development of international youth cooperation. At the first meeting of the Organizing Committee chaired by Sergey Kiriyenko, First Deputy Chief of Staff of the Presidential Administration, it was decided to hold the Festival in the Sirius Federal Territory early next year.

20,000 young leaders in education, science, international cooperation, culture, volunteering, charity, sports, business, media, etc., including 10,000 foreign participants, will take part in the WYF 2024. For the first time in the history of the festival movement young people aged 14-17, 500 from Russia and 500 from abroad, will have the opportunity to participate in the event.

5,000 volunteers from all regions of Russia, including 228 residents of the LPR, DPR, Zaporizhzhia and Kherson Regions will be involved in the organization and delivery of the Festival.

The World Youth Festival is organized by the Federal Agency for Youth Affairs (Rosmolodezh) and operated by the World Youth Festival Directorate.

More Than a Trip is a program that has allowed more than 165,000 young people to see unique places in Russia, learn about university and industrial achievements, develop socially significant projects and make new friends.

The More Than a Trip program is implemented by the Federal Agency for Youth Affairs (Rosmolodezh) as part of the Make Tourism More Accessible federal project of the Tourism and Hospitality Industry national project. It is part of the project line of the Russia – Land of Opportunity presidential platform and is being implemented with the support of the Movement of the First, the Russian Knowledge Society, the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Culture, the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Economic Development of Russia and the Rossotrudnichestvo.

Prepared by the WYF 2024 Press Office