STA Travel

STA Travel is a brand of Explorer Travel GmbH in Düsseldorf, Germany and a supplier of travel products online as well as in 15 shops located around Germany.

Until 2020 the company had been a global Travel Supplier supplying products and service to the general public through their 200 retail travel agency stores located globally. It had almost 2,000 employees working in over 200 stores worldwide.

In August 2020 the Swiss parent company filed for insolvency. The UK, Australian and New Zealand subsidiaries also entered administration in the same week. In December 2020, branches of the company were taken over by the travel agency New Travel Reisebüro Vertrieb (NTRV), whereby STA Travel was retained as a travel company. STA Travel is now (as of March 2025) a brand of Explorer Travel GmbH in Germany.

Originally an acronym for "Student Travel Australia", the company was later branded as "Student Travel Association" and later branded itself as a retronym "Start The Adventure". Under the BUNAC brand, the company arranged working holidays and volunteering.