Elvis is number one travelling companion in gap year poll
Elvis was voted the most popular travel companion in a poll of 1,200 gap year students.
The survey, carried out by gap year website, www.travellersconnected.com, gave participants free reign to choose whoever they liked, dead, or alive. They were not given a shortlist.
Elvis topped the poll with 6% of the vote, followed by Ghandi who received 4.3% the vote.
John Lennon, Marilyn Monroe, Che Guevara, The Dalai Lama, Winston Churchill and Nelson Mandela all appeared in the Top 10, but Michael Palin, David Attenborough and Bruce Parry didn’t.
“Elvis being the number one choice was totally unexpected but then at least you’d never be short of a few tunes by the campfire!” said Alastair Banks, one of the website’s seven founders.
Bev
Editor in chief Bev Fearis has been a travel journalist for 25 years. She started her career at Travel Weekly, where she became deputy news editor, before joining Business Traveller as deputy editor and launching the magazine’s website. She has also written travel features, news and expert comment for the Guardian, Observer, Times, Telegraph, Boundless and other consumer titles and was named one of the top 50 UK travel journalists by the Press Gazette.
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