We have been putting students on coaches, in museums and on foot through Québec, New York, Boston, Washington D.C. and historic cities since the 1980s. The buses changed. The paperwork changed. The promise never did: bring every student home with a story worth telling.
A teacher shouldn’t need a second job to run a trip. So we give you the tools we spent four decades wishing we had: build a custom itinerary, share one link, watch student interest arrive in real time, and confirm only when the numbers work.
Everything else (the coach, the hotel, the museum slot, the meal booking, the emergency phone at 2am) stays our problem. That’s the whole idea.
Figures from our own operating history, not projections.
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It started with a young history student who could not stop talking about the places he had read about. No smartphones, no Wi-Fi, no live tracking. Just a stick-shift coach, a clipboard and a group of teenagers seeing Boston, Montréal or Washington D.C. for the first time. He learned the trade the slow way, under mentors like Chris Keating of Keating Educational Tours, alongside industry figures John and Dave Temple.
In 1991 that apprenticeship became a company. Educatours opened in Montréal and grew into one of the region’s busiest student travel operators. At its peak it carried 24,000 passengers a year across 500 groups, with 55 tour leaders on the road guiding students through New York, Boston, Washington D.C., Montréal, Ottawa and Québec City.
Keep the kids safe. Make learning fun. Turn every trip into a memory that lasts a lifetime.
The rule we have never rewritten
After the sale of Educatours came years in Boston, including work that became part of Landmark Educational Tours. Different city, same conversation with every teacher: the travel was never the hard part. The hard part was the eleven months of quotes, forms, chasing checks and waiting for approval before anyone boarded anything.
So we built the thing that fixes the hard part. GLOBAL Educational Tours runs on Tango Travel Systems: teachers assemble a custom itinerary in minutes, share one link to gauge real student interest, adjust dates and activities freely, and lock the trip 60 days out, without drowning in logistics. Four decades of knowing what goes wrong on the road, poured into software that quietly stops it happening.
A young history student trains under mentors like Chris Keating of Keating Educational Tours, alongside industry figures John and Dave Temple. No smartphones, no Wi-Fi. Just stick-shift coaches and historic cities.
In Montréal, the passion becomes a company. At its peak: 24,000 passengers a year across 500 groups, with 55 tour leaders guiding students to New York, Boston, Washington D.C., Montréal, Ottawa and Québec City.
After the sale of Educatours come years in Boston, including work that became part of Landmark Educational Tours, sharpening a clear view of what educational travel could be if the admin simply disappeared.
Powered by Tango Travel Systems, teachers build custom itineraries, recruit with real-time interest tracking, and lock trips 60 days out. Planning is free, changes are free, and nothing is committed until you say so.
You’re not handing your students to a booking engine. Here is who is actually behind the trip.
Forty years of student travel, from the driver’s seat of a stick-shift coach to founding Educatours in Montréal and, later, building Global Educational Tours in Boston. If a school trip can go sideways, he has already seen it, and written the fix into the platform.
He still takes teacher calls himself. That’s not a marketing line; it’s how the company has always worked.
Drafts your first itinerary, then redraws it as many times as your calendar, budget and principal require.
At the peak of Educatours, 55 of them travelled with our groups. Same standard now: an adult who knows the city, walking beside your students.
Chases the coach, the hotel block, the museum slot and the meal booking, so a teacher never has to make that call.
Answered by our own team, not a ticket queue. Delayed flight, sick student, changed weather: someone picks up.
Every group gets a named contact before departure, and that contact stays reachable for the whole trip.
Get a name and a numberThese are not wall posters. They are the standards a trip is checked against before, during and after it runs.
We collaborate, internally and with your school, to build the trip students actually walk: Capitol Hill, the Mall, or whichever city you chose.
We are here to make educational travel possible for schools that thought they could not afford it, even when that means the unglamorous work.
We hold the highest standard in planning and execution, and we never trade it for speed.
Trust is built by being honest early, particularly when the news is inconvenient.
A trip should hold up at every touchpoint, including the ones parents never see.
These principles shape every itinerary we help a teacher build.
Plan with GLOBALCoverage through Travel Insured International: medical, evacuation, cancellation, and an optional Cancel For Any Reason upgrade.
See what’s coveredHold your preferred dates with no deposit. Change activities, dates or group size freely, and confirm only when the numbers work.
How booking worksVetted, licensed local operators only, plus the risk assessments and documentation your board asks for before it approves a trip.
Read the answersA named contact for every departure and a 24/7 emergency line staffed by our own team, not an outsourced ticket queue.
Reach a humanBuild a custom itinerary in about ten minutes. Free to plan, free to change, and nothing is committed until you confirm.
+1 802-377-3311 info@globaleducationaltours.com 75 Federal St, Suite 1100, Boston, MA
