The National Student Travel Foundation found its modest beginnings in 1954 when the Student Representatives Council (SRC) set up the Maltese Student Travel Department, which remained an integral part of the SRC within the statutes of the University of Malta. The dimensions and responsibilities of the operations assumed by the student and travel office lead the university students, meeting in a general assembly in 1976, to unanimously resolve to constitute a separate legal and economic entity. The National Student Travel Foundation (NSTF) was thus created by public deed in 1977.