The travel and insurance brand, World Nomads has teamed with Ancestry.com, TravelStore and STA Travel, to launch the Relative Distance campaign.
One lucky winner and their companion will be treated to a 1-year ancestry membership, a customized trip to any location of their choice, and free airfare to travel to the land of their ancestors to trace and explore their roots. The winner will also be ready for their trip with luggage from Bluesmart, gear from The Clymb and with guide books from Lonely Planet.
What is Relative Distance?
Relative Distance is rooted in the belief that in order to understand who we are today we need to know our past.
The aim isn’t to discover whether or not you have a blood connection to King Henry VIII. It’s about the more recent past, about connecting with the stories you heard growing up, or going on an adventure to the village from where your grandfather migrated.
Here are a few examples from the World Nomads community of people who have already embarked on journeys of discovery:
- Constanza Trespalacios, who visited her great-grandfather’s village in Asturias, Spain to better understand what he gave up by moving to Mexico
- Rose Munday, who followed her great-grandfather’s diary while moving from England to Africa as her itinerary on a trek though Kenya, Tanzania, Malawai, and Zambia
- Kesha Robertson, who learned about her mysterious grandfather’s family by meeting his siblings in Slovakia
- Anne Cramer, who learned about Irish resilience through song while visiting Carrick-on-Sharron
How to enter
To enter the competition, complete your ancestral anecdote here. Entries close 29 May with winners announced on 20 June. The prize has to be used by June 2018.
For media enquires email Phil Sylvester, at World Nomads HQ in Australia (+61 400538309), or Megan Warner in New York, USA.