SERVAS Travellers

To become a SERVAS traveller, please contact a Servas coordinator in your country (see our list of coordinators) or, if none is listed, please get in touch with the help desk.

In either case the National Secretary in your own country or the International General Secretary will send you further information and will arrange an interview for you.

If there is no National Secretary in your country, you will be sent a Letter of Introduction form for you to fill in and instructions on how you can contact the most convenient SERVAS interviewer.

It is important to understand that no-one can be approved as a traveller in SERVAS without an interview.

You should take your passport to the interviewer together with a passport type photograph.

You will be told the amount of the travel fee and to whom it should be paid.

Each country fixes its own travel fee.

Remember that the officers of SERVAS are all volunteers who have to make time for extra work.

Finally you should allow plenty of time for joining SERVAS (4 weeks if possible) before your departure date.

This is to ensure enough time to write letters (or make calls) to the hosts you would like to visit.

Travellers

A traveller must be 18 years of age or over.

All travellers must be interviewed to make sure they are responsible, open minded and likely to be a good member of SERVAS. When approved, the traveller receives a Letter of Introduction which is signed, stamped and dated and is the traveller's 'passport' in Servas. It is valid for one year.

The Letter of Introduction is shown on arrival in a host's home.

If possible, Host Lists are provided for the countries a traveller will be visiting.

A deposit is required for Host Lists, and this is refunded when the lists are returned together with a travel report. If a Host List cannot be provided for a particular country, the traveller will be given the address and telephone number or a contact in that country from whom a list can be obtained. If writing for a list, a copy of the letter of introduction should be included. Host Lists should be returned at the end of a trip so that they are available for other travellers.

At the end of a trip, the traveller should write a short report for the National Secretary, listing the hosts that have been stayed with, noting any changes of address or telephone number and giving advice that may be useful to other travellers.

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