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Educational travel used to take six phone calls and a semester of emails. We rebuilt it the way you already book everything else: pick, customize, confirm.
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Customise everything
Swap a museum for a cooking class. Add a night. Move to a quieter week. Every change re-prices instantly, so there’s never a surprise invoice.
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Measure interest, then book
Share a link. Students and parents register interest before a single deposit exists. When the numbers work, you confirm in one click.
- Interest tracking
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Traveller stories
“Use me as a reference any time.”
Words truly cannot express how grateful I am for everything you did to make this trip a fantastic experience. You went above and beyond in every way, even giving up your room for one of our passengers. You can personally use me as a reference any time.
I cannot thank you enough for arranging all the activities for the Canada trip. It has been amazing. Robert has been a godsend; his English is impeccable and we experienced so much more than previous years. We even got a picture with Bonhomme. That has never happened before.
Absolutely fabulous. The Global Educational Tours team created a fantastic experience for our group. He has a unique gift for handling both the expected and the unexpected. He leads with care and thoughtfulness, and his depth of historical knowledge adds such value. Highly recommended.
98% of group leaders who travel with us book a second departure within eighteen months.
The map
Two countries now. The rest of the map next.
Start with a destination your department can defend, then open the trips that run there. Live departures sit next to 2027 openings, so you can see what you can actually book.
Canada
French immersion and big landscapes, without the flight.
France
Language and art, with the best view in the classroom.
Costa Rica
Five percent of everything alive on Earth lives here. Cloud forest canopy at sunrise, Pacific coast by evening, Spanish all day long.
United States
Civics, arts and battlefields — taught on site.
Italy
Rome, Florence, Venice and the Dolomites: antiquity, the Renaissance and an alpine ecology day in a single itinerary.
Norway
Viking history, fjord ecosystems and a sustainability case study students can measure. Plus a real chance at the aurora.
Trips
Every departure, fully in view.
Expanded cards with photographs from our own groups, plus nights, season and a from-price. The days sit on the card. You don’t have to guess.
4 itineraries
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United States
Live
Washington D.C.
Civics & History
The only city where the civics textbook is the skyline. Seventeen Smithsonian museums, all free, all walkable from the Mall. The Capitol tour is the part students still quote in class in September.
Admin-friendly: shortest travel days, lowest cost per learning hour, strongest curriculum tie-in.
Why we recommend it
- Seventeen free Smithsonian museums. The budget goes to learning, not tickets.
- Strongest civics alignment for government and history departments
- Short travel days keep chaperone fatigue and cost down
- Capitol, Mall and cherry blossom season bookable as one coherent unit
- U.S. Capitol
- Lincoln Memorial
- Smithsonian
- Arlington
- White House
- Tidal Basin
- 3-Day Washington Tour 3 days · 2 nights
3 days and 2 nights in Washington, with transport, accommodation, admissions and meals arranged as one booking.
- Capital Classic 3 days · 2 nights · Year-roundMost booked
Capitol tour, Mall memorials by night, two Smithsonians.
- Capital Classic Extended 4 days · 3 nights · Year-round
Adds Arlington, Mount Vernon and a congressional office visit.
- Cherry Blossom Edition 3 days · 2 nights · Late MarchSeasonal
Tidal Basin at peak bloom. Book about eleven months out.
Please contact us for pricing
Plan a trip to Washington D.C.
2 itineraries
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United States
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Boston
Revolution & Ivy
Two and a half miles of red brick connect the entire American Revolution, and four of the strongest university campuses on the continent sit on the same loop.
Pairs a history unit with a college-visit day. Parents love the second half.
Why we recommend it
- Freedom Trail is a walking syllabus with a measurable finish line
- Built-in Harvard/MIT day doubles the parent value proposition
- Compact geography: more learning, less coach time
- Pairs cleanly with Gettysburg or NYC for an East Coast loop
- Freedom Trail
- State House
- Quincy Market
- Old North Church
- Harvard & MIT
- Fenway
- Boston Classic 4 days · 3 nights · Year-round
Adds Salem, the Tea Party Ship and an MIT admissions session.
- Freedom Trail 4 days · 3 nights · Year-roundMost booked
Full trail with a costumed guide, plus Harvard Yard.
Please contact us for pricing
Plan a trip to Boston
3 itineraries
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United States
Live
New York City
Arts & Civics
Five boroughs, one syllabus. Ellis Island for immigration, the Met for art history, the Oculus for architecture, all inside a metro ride.
The trip students talk about for the rest of high school. Also the easiest yes you’ll ever get from parents.
Why we recommend it
- Highest student excitement per overnight of any domestic itinerary
- Immigration, art and architecture inside one metro system. No wasted coach days.
- Broadway and museum tickets locked months ahead through Global Educational Tours
- The easiest parent “yes” on the calendar
- Statue of Liberty
- The Met
- Times Square
- Central Park
- 9/11 Memorial
- Broadway
- 3-Day New York Tour 3 days · 2 nights
3 days and 2 nights in New York, with transport, accommodation, admissions and meals arranged as one booking.
- NYC Essentials 3 days · 2 nights · Year-roundMost booked
Liberty Island, the Met, Times Square by night.
- NYC Extended 4 days · 3 nights · Year-round
Adds Broadway matinee, Oculus and a Central Park walking seminar.
Please contact us for pricing
Plan a trip to New York City
6 itineraries
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Canada
Live
Québec City
French Immersion
A walled UNESCO city where every shopkeeper answers in French. Fastest immersion in North America, and the only one you can reach by motorcoach.
Students order lunch in French on day one. By day three they stop translating in their heads.
Why we recommend it
- Closest true French immersion reachable by coach from the Northeast
- UNESCO Old City keeps the group on foot: more contact hours, fewer transfers
- Winter Carnival dates sell the seats parents actually want to photograph
- Language and history share one zip code. One trip, two departments.
- Château Frontenac
- Montmorency Falls
- Winter Carnival
- Ice Hotel
- Dog sledding
- Plains of Abraham
- 3-Day Québec Tour 3 days · 2 nights
3 days and 2 nights in Québec, with transport, accommodation, admissions and meals arranged as one booking.
- French Immersion Classic 3 days · 2 nights · Sep–JunMost booked
Guided immersion walks, Petit Champlain, Montmorency Falls.
- Québec City Special 3 days · 2 nights · Year-roundBest value
Same city, leaner budget. Built for first-time group leaders.
- Winter Carnival Edition 3 days · 2 nights · FebruaryFebruary
Bonhomme, ice canoe race, night parade seats reserved.
- Winter Experience + Ice Hotel Dance 3 days · 2 nights · Jan–MarStudent favorite
A private dance inside the Hôtel de Glace.
- Winter Extended 4 days · 3 nights · Jan–Mar
Adds dog sledding and a Martello Tower living-history session.
Please contact us for pricing
Plan a trip to Québec City
3 itineraries
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Canada
Live
Montréal
Bilingual City
A bilingual metropolis with cobblestones, a Biodôme, an Olympic tower and the best bagel argument in North America.
The easiest first international trip a school can run. Passports, but no jet lag.
Why we recommend it
- International stamp without jet lag from the Northeast
- Bilingual city: French practice plus urban culture in one stop
- Easiest first passport trip for nervous admin teams
- Combines with Québec City on a single motorcoach
- Old Montréal
- Notre-Dame Basilica
- Olympic Park
- Biosphere
- Mount Royal
- Marché Bonsecours
- 3-Day Montréal Tour 3 days · 2 nights
3 days and 2 nights in Montréal, with transport, accommodation, admissions and meals arranged as one booking.
- Classic Montréal 3 days · 2 nights · Year-roundMost booked
Old Port, Notre-Dame, Olympic Park and a sugar-shack lunch.
- Montréal & Québec City 5 days · 4 nights · Year-roundTwo cities
One motorcoach, two walled cities, zero extra flights.
Please contact us for pricing
Plan a trip to Montréal
2 itineraries
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United States
Live
Gettysburg
Living History
Six thousand acres of preserved battlefield with a licensed guide on your motorcoach. The Civil War stops being a chapter and becomes a place.
Lowest price point we offer, and the strongest single-subject learning outcome.
Why we recommend it
- Lowest price point with the deepest single-subject outcome
- Licensed battlefield guides ride with your group
- Living history sticks longer than any slide deck
- Ideal first overnight for younger grades or tight budgets
- Licensed battlefield guide
- Little Round Top
- Pennsylvania Memorial
- Cyclorama
- Live cannon firing
- Eisenhower Farm
- Battlefield Intensive 3 days · 2 nights · Mar–NovBest value
Two guided field days and an evening ranger program.
- Gettysburg Classic 4 days · 3 nights · Mar–Nov
Adds Eisenhower Farm and a reenactor artillery demonstration.
Please contact us for pricing
Plan a trip to Gettysburg
1 itinerary
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Canada
Live
Toronto
Skyline & Culture
The CN Tower by afternoon, Niagara Falls the next morning. Canada’s largest city is a media and finance capital with the energy to match, built around one clean Ontario coach loop.
A culture-and-skyline unit that often costs less than a domestic flight.
Why we recommend it
- ROM and the Distillery District round out a full culture day
- Niagara Falls day without buying a separate itinerary
- Often cheaper than a domestic flight for Northeast schools
- CN Tower views anchor the skyline half of the trip
- CN Tower
- ROM
- Distillery District
- Casa Loma
- St. Lawrence Market
- Niagara Falls day
- Toronto Explorer 3 days · 2 nights · Year-roundMost booked
CN Tower, ROM, Niagara Falls day trip.
Please contact us for pricing
Plan a trip to Toronto
1 itinerary
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Canada
Coming soon!
Banff & the Rockies
Field Science
Glacial geology you can put your hand on. Moraine Lake at sunrise, larch valleys in September, an icefield in between.
Earth science, at scale. The only itinerary where the landscape is the entire curriculum.
Why we recommend it
- Landscape is the curriculum. Glacial geology at arm’s length.
- Earth science departments finally get a flagship field trip
- Moraine and Icefield deliver the photos that fundraise the next cohort
- Opening 2027 waitlist locks preferred summer windows
- Moraine Lake
- Columbia Icefield
- Larch Valley
- Lake Louise paddle
- Glacier geology lab
- Wildlife corridors
- Rockies Field Science 6 days · 5 nights · Opening Summer 2027Waitlist
Icefield traverse and two guided geology field sessions.
Coming soon!
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3 itineraries
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France
Coming soon!
Paris
Language & Art
Six nights inside the périphérique, not a suburban airport hotel. Students commute by Métro like Parisians, because that is the lesson.
Paused while we re-open international departures. Waitlist leaders get first pick when Paris returns.
Why we recommend it
- Central lodging means students ride the Métro like Parisians
- Language departments fill waitlists a year ahead for a reason
- Louvre and Orsay seminars beat a drive-by photo stop
- Scalable: Essentials, Immersion, or Normandy extension
- Louvre
- Eiffel Tower
- Panthéon
- Musée d'Orsay
- Montmartre
- Versailles
- Paris · Normandy · Loire 10 days · 8 nights · Apr–JunDeep dive
Adds the D-Day beaches, Mont-Saint-Michel and two Loire châteaux.
- Paris Essentials 7 days · 5 nights · Year-roundBest value
The same city, one fewer night.
- Paris Immersion 8 days · 6 nights · Feb / Apr / JunFlagship
Central accommodation, Métro passes, three guided museum seminars.
Coming soon!
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2 itineraries
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France
Coming soon!
Normandy & Loire
WWII & Heritage
Omaha Beach at low tide, Mont-Saint-Michel at dusk, Honfleur for lunch. History that students physically stand inside.
Paused alongside Paris while we re-open international departures. Chaperones ask when it is coming back.
Why we recommend it
- Students stand on the same sand as the textbook chapter
- Emotional depth chaperones say they cannot recreate in class
- Bolts onto Paris without a second international flight
- Mont-Saint-Michel and Loire châteaux close the heritage arc
- D-Day beaches
- Mont-Saint-Michel
- Étretat cliffs
- Honfleur
- American Cemetery
- Loire châteaux
- D-Day & Normandy Coast 4 days · 3 nights · Apr–OctAdd-on ready
Bolts onto any Paris itinerary as an extension.
- Paris · Normandy · Loire 10 days · 8 nights · Apr–JunDeep dive
The full arc: capital, coast and châteaux.
Coming soon!
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2 itineraries
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Costa Rica
Coming soon!
Costa Rica
Spanish + Ecology
Five percent of everything alive on Earth lives here. Cloud forest canopy at sunrise, Pacific coast by evening, Spanish all day long.
Paused while we re-open international departures. Waitlist now for Spanish and Biology co-sponsors.
Why we recommend it
- Spanish and Biology can split the cost, which makes approvals easier
- Biodiversity density unmatched for a week-long field course
- Service-learning mornings give counselors something concrete to report
- Homestay option pushes language from classroom to dinner table
- Cloud forest canopy
- Arenal volcano
- Sloth & toucan spotting
- Pacific coast
- Homestay Spanish
- Reforestation service
- Bio & Spanish Immersion 10 days · 9 nights · JuneTwo departments
Adds family homestays and a marine turtle field station.
- Costa Rica Educational Tour 7 days · 6 nights · Jun–Aug / DecFlagship
Canopy walkways, volcano hike, two service-learning mornings.
Coming soon!
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1 itinerary
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Italy
Coming soon!
Italy
Renaissance & Rome
Rome, Florence, Venice and the Dolomites: antiquity, the Renaissance and an alpine ecology day in a single itinerary.
Waitlist now. Departures release to waitlist leaders 60 days before public booking.
Why we recommend it
- Rome–Florence–Venice arc covers antiquity through the Renaissance
- Waitlist leaders get first pick of departure dates
- Cooking seminar plus museum days balance rigor and memory
- Dolomites add an ecology beat most Italy trips skip
- Colosseum
- Ponte Vecchio
- Venice canals
- Duomo di Milano
- Cinque Terre
- Dolomites
- Classic Italy 9 days · 7 nights · Opening Spring 2027Waitlist
Rome · Florence · Venice with a Tuscan cooking seminar.
Coming soon!
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Norway
Coming soon!
Norway
Fjords & Sustainability
Viking history, fjord ecosystems and a sustainability case study students can measure. Plus a real chance at the aurora.
Built with science departments. Field data collection is part of the itinerary.
Why we recommend it
- Science departments co-own the itinerary. Field data is on the schedule.
- Fjord ecosystems as a living lab, not a viewpoint stop
- The aurora window is the night they will describe first
- Sustainability case study boards and parents respect
- Aurora borealis
- Trolltunga
- Ålesund Art Nouveau
- Fjord ecology lab
- Viking Museum
- Wildlife tracking
- Fjords & Northern Lights 8 days · 6 nights · Opening Summer 2027Waitlist
Coastal voyage with two field-science mornings.
Coming soon!
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Coaches, hotels, guides and meals live in one tab, not in a binder of supplier emails.
Build a tour in minutes
Choose a city, drop in sites, set your dates. The itinerary fills in transfer times, meal windows and free blocks so you’re not drawing a timetable by hand.
Louvre
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One booking, not nine
Flights, motorcoaches, hotels, guided tours and meals settle on a single invoice with a single point of contact.
Recruitment built in
Share one link. Watch interest arrive in real time. Decide with data, not a show of hands in homeroom.
Change without penalty
Dates, activities, group size: edit freely until you confirm. Nothing’s locked until you’re ready. After you accept, the 60-day lock is real, and we say so up front.
Parents pay directly
Individual payment plans, automatic reminders, live balance per traveler. You never collect a check again.
Someone answers at 2am
A tour operator on our own team answers for every departure, not a ticket queue. Delayed flight, sick student, closed memorial: handled. Average reply is about ninety seconds.
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Avg. response 90 seconds
Everyone on this trip wants something different.
Get your evenings back.
You became a teacher to teach, not to reconcile motorcoach quotes. Global Educational Tours takes roughly 40 hours of admin off a single trip: the planning, the collection, the rooming lists, the reminders.
- Itinerary drafted in one prep period
- Rooming lists and dietary needs auto-collected
- Chaperone ratios calculated for you
- Curriculum-aligned activity library
Approvable on the first read.
The file your board already asks for, ready when you start planning: risk assessments, insurance certificates, supplier vetting, emergency protocols and a live traveler manifest.
- Full liability & travel insurance available
- Vetted, licensed local operators only
- 24/7 emergency line with named contacts
- Transparent per-student cost breakdown
You’ll know exactly where they are.
One clear price with nothing hidden underneath it. A monthly payment plan. A daily itinerary you can read at breakfast, and an emergency number that a human answers.
- Interest-free monthly payment plans
- Tips and taxes are already in the price.
- Daily itinerary & check-in updates
- Optional cancel-for-any-reason cover
The week you’ll still mention at thirty.
A night walk on the Mall after the memorials light up. Ordering lunch in French you’ve only ever written. Standing on Little Round Top instead of reading about it.
- Real free time, in real neighborhoods
- The Mall at dusk, or Times Square after the Met
- Meals you’d actually choose
- Rooms with your friends, sorted early
Recruitment tool
Know the answer before you commit.
The scariest part of a school trip is the guess. You pick a city, a price and a week, then hope thirty families agree. Share a link instead. Watch interest land in real time, and adjust the trip until the numbers work.
- Zero commitment for families to register interest
- See the price point where sign-ups accelerate
- Test two destinations against each other
- Export the list straight into your booking
Live interest · Grade 10 French
Québec City · 3 days
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Safety & insurance
The paperwork your board wants, already done.
Approval is the real bottleneck in school travel. We hand you the file, complete, the day you start planning, not three weeks after you ask.
Risk assessmentsPer-itinerary, downloadable, board-ready.
Travel insuranceMedical, cancellation and optional CFAR cover.
Vetted suppliersLicensed guides and inspected coaches only.
24/7 emergency lineNamed contacts, answered by our own team.
Start from how many nights you can get approved.
Filter by length or region, then browse itineraries schools actually book, from a three-day Québec run to a week in Paris.
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Region
Washington D.C. United States
Cherry Blossom Edition
Please contact us for pricing
Plan Cherry Blossom Edition
Québec City Canada
French Immersion Classic
Please contact us for pricing
Plan French Immersion Classic
Québec City Canada
Winter Carnival Edition
Please contact us for pricing
Plan Winter Carnival Edition
Québec City Canada
Winter Experience + Ice Hotel Dance
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Plan Winter Experience + Ice Hotel Dance
Gettysburg United States
Battlefield Intensive
Please contact us for pricing
Plan Battlefield Intensive
Atlanta Civil Rights
Please contact us for pricing
Plan Atlanta Civil Rights
Washington D.C. United States
3-Day Washington Tour
Please contact us for pricing
Plan 3-Day Washington Tour
Washington D.C. United States
Capital Classic Extended
Please contact us for pricing
Plan Capital Classic Extended
New York City United States
3-Day New York Tour
Please contact us for pricing
Plan 3-Day New York Tour
Nothing in that combination yet.
Plan a custom tripFinal pricing depends on group size, season and add-ons. Contact us for a quote built around your group.
Where next
Your students pick our 2028 route.
Three shortlisted regions. One opens for booking. Cast a vote. It takes a second, and it genuinely decides where we build next.
Apps & more
Free tools, whether you book with us or not.
Podcast
The School Trip Podcast
Group leaders describing what actually went wrong, and what they’d do differently. Twenty-two episodes, roughly thirty minutes each.
Listen now
Toolbox
My School Trip Toolbox
Permission slip templates, a parent-night deck, packing lists, chaperone briefs and a fundraising calendar. Download, rename, use.
Open the toolbox
Travel apps
On-tour app
Live itinerary, roll-call check-ins, room lists and an emergency button, on every traveler’s phone, working offline.
See the apps
Blog
Field notes
Funding a trip when the budget says no. Managing a 1:12 ratio. The seven-month booking curve. Written by people who run tours.
Read the blog
FAQs
The questions that come up in every staff meeting.
Is it really free to plan a school trip?
Yes. Building itineraries, comparing Québec with New York or Washington D.C., running an interest page and sharing quotes with families costs nothing. You pay only when you confirm a departure and travelers begin their payment plans.
How far ahead do we need to book a school trip?
Domestic and Canadian trips comfortably run on four to six months. Europe and Costa Rica want eight to twelve. Two exceptions: Québec Winter Carnival and the Washington D.C. cherry-blossom weeks. Those groups book about eleven months out and still fill.
What is included in the per-student price?
Transport (flights or motorcoach), accommodation, listed meals, every activity on the itinerary, local guides, taxes and gratuities. The number you show parents is the number they pay. Optional extras such as an insurance upgrade or a Broadway ticket are always shown separately.
What if not enough students sign up?
That’s precisely what the interest tracker prevents. You gather non-binding interest first, adjust price or dates while it costs nothing to change, and only confirm once the group is viable. You can change anything until the day you accept.
How many chaperones travel free?
One free place per ten paying students on domestic and Canadian departures, and one per twelve internationally. Groups over sixty receive an additional complimentary place. Ratios are calculated automatically as your list grows.
Can parents pay individually?
Yes, and they should. Each family gets their own account, their own interest-free monthly plan and their own automated reminders. Group leaders never handle money, chase a check or reconcile a spreadsheet.
What happens if something goes wrong on tour?
You call one number and a member of our operations team answers, not an outsourced call center. Every departure has a named contact, a local backup operator and a written plan for missed connections, illness and weather.
Do you align with our curriculum?
Every activity in the library is tagged by subject and level, and each itinerary exports a learning-outcomes summary you can attach to your proposal. Language departments can request additional immersion hours on any French or Spanish itinerary.
Start free
Your next trip is about ten minutes away.
Tell us the grade, the city and a week. A planner sends a costed outline, usually within one business day. We call only if you ask.
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- Reply within one business day
- Change anything before you confirm