Every year, the GTTP is running a Research Competition for Tourism learners in South African High Schools.
The purpose of the competition is to provide learners the opportunity to conduct research on a topic determined by the GTTP directors from all participating countries, write a case study and present their topic to fellow learners and teachers from 11 other GTTP countries.
All high schools in South Africa offering Tourism can research the topic and enter the competition. Each GTTP member country selects a winner of the GTTP Research Award.
The theme for 2016 was “Heritage Tourism”
Melizza Liebenberg en Alexandra Combrinck het besluit om deel te neem aan die kompetisie en het navorsing gedoen oor die Diasmuseum en die Diasfees. Hulle opskrif was: “Europe meets Africa”
Hulle het tweede in Suid-Afrika gekom en daarmee ‘n vakansie binne Suid-Afrika gewen. Die trofee en sertifikate is in Bloemfontein tydens die openingseremonie van die Nasionale Toerisme Loopbaan Ekspo aan hulle oorhandig deur die Minister van Onderwys van die Vrystaat Mnr. Tate Makgoe.