Troy Collings: North Korea's 'first budget travel agent' dies aged 33
Together with Mr Johnson - to whom he credited the idea - he began building a travel business to take groups to North Korea, at around half the cost of what other tour organisers were asking.
"If it were not for the budget pricing model which YPT pioneered then many young people would never have had the chance to visit the DPRK," Chad O'Carroll, managing director of North Korea specialist website NK News told the BBC. Today, the company also offers other tours off the beaten track, including Chernobyl in Belarus or East Timor in Asia.
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