When planning student travel, consider this: What is your goal? Where will you go? What will you do? How will you select qualified chaperones? How will your group fund their experience? How will you ensure things run smoothly? What happens if someone becomes ill—or...
Pickpockets love travelers. Travelers are prime targets because they are presumably unfamiliar with their surroundings, distracted by the new sites and carrying valuable items. Do not worry, however. Two can play at this game. Pickpockets ain’t got nothin’...
Everything we needed to know about travel insurance, we learned from Bud Geissler, National Group Manager at Travel Insured International. During the Teach & Travel edWebinar “Travel Insurance: Helping Teachers Understand Their Options for Protecting Class...
On January 10, 2018, the United States Department of State introduced a new travel advisory system for sharing information with U.S. travelers. Instead of travel warnings and travel alerts, every country will have an overall Travel Advisory level, with levels of...
We live in a world in which both teachers and parents live in fear there will be some form of violence when children are either at school or on a class trip. Because school trips vary in the age of the student traveler, location of the trip and duration of travel,...
