Juan for Fun 2018 educates students through travel
When you’re traveling with your parents or friends, you tend to be relaxed. You’re not really present or alert because you’re going along with their itinerary,” shares Candice Iyog, vice president for marketing and distribution of Cebu Pacific. Juan for Fun is exactly the travel experience one needs — especially a young adult — to get the most out of a trip. Now in its 7th year, Ceby Pacific Air’s Juan for Fun started out as a media event, now, it’s an exciting opportunity for students to experience traveling on their own.
Juan for Fun 2018 now has more accessible mechanics to widen its reach for the next generation of travelers. This year’s Juan for Fun 2018 Epic Trip brings five winners with two friends each, around any destination in the Philippines for seven days for free.
“In the past six years, what we found the most fulfilling was how much the participants transformed after the trip. Whether it was their first time riding a plane, or first time to travel with friends, Juan for Fun opens up this new world of possibility, and makes them learn about themselves and the world,” says Iyog. For Cebu Pacific Air, seeing these students return changed for the better, more attentive to their surroundings and with a lust for travel, makes everything worth it.
The airline is veering away from the audition video requirements of the past, and is simply asking people to nominate someone they think deserves an Epic Trip through www.juanforfun. ph. Deadline for nominations is on March 31.
Once chosen, five winners will have the chance to bring along two companions each on a week-long, all-expenses paid trip around the Philippines in May 23-29, 2018.
The teams will be guided by Juan for Fun travel coaches — Becoming Filipino’s Kyle “Kulas” Jennermann; travel writer Jude Bacalso; celebrity and travel vlogger Bea Binene; celebrity and social media personality Baninay Bautista; as well as YouTube vloggers and personalities Wil Dasovich and Kimpoy Feliciano.
Bautista, one of Juan for Fun’s new coaches, recounts her first time riding a plane in her Juan for Fun recruitment video: “That was my most memorable travel of all time, kasi nandoon ‘yung excitement ko; ‘yung curiosity ko — kung anong feeling makasakay sa eroplano.”
Jennerman also shares his ideal itinerary — which is to have none. “I find that the best experiences are the ones where you wonder, ‘What did I get myself into this time?’”
Juan for Fun 2018 aims to inculcate in the youth that travelling is indeed possible and reachable. Carl Calud, one of Juan for Fun’s alumni, shared, “Juan for Fun was life-changing. Before, I thought traveling would just take so much time, effort, energy, and money. But after Juan for Fun, I realized that it’s all worth it, because you get to grow as a person.”
To participate in this adventure of a lifetime, nominees have to be Filipinos aged 18-23 years old, and currently enrolled, graduating or new graduates. For information, visit www.facebook.com/CebuPacificJFF.
The Cebu Pacific Juan for Fun 2018 Epic Trip is endorsed by the Department of Tourism and supported by Jake Bros. and Smart Communications, Inc.