passports provides educational travel tours for high school and college students, their teachers and professors, and adults. Travel trips are scheduled year-round to Europe, Scandinavia, Africa, the Caribbean, Asia and Australia at low, guaranteed prices, and are normally accompanied by local teacher-organizers, who enjoy special benefits — like free trips and cash payments in compensation for their hard work.

This is the company's new multi-media web site, passports.com

The clickable icons shown below appear on almost every page of this web site, and can help to navigate the hundreds of essays and gigabytes of travel information which are offered up here for your use.  Enjoy!  Join us!

What's so special about passports?  At first, we thought it significant that passports was among a very few nationwide student travel companies which were wholly American-owned and operated. (Most of the others may look that way, but they're not!)  But then other people — our clients — started chiming in, pointing out that our overseas tours were just plain better, and that our prices were lower, and that the company was straight-talking, and fun to deal with. Easily convinced, the company set about to publish these fine things being said. That's what you get when you click on the icon.


Here's where the action is. These are the original, trend-setting travel programs written by passports   professionals over 30 years ago! These itineraries have been the mainstay of American travelers and students ever since, and widely imitated. Here you've got the real thing! Once you've found an itinerary you can't resist, click on the "next step" icon in the left-hand column, and fill out the form. That will get you personalized copies of the itinerary suitable for distribution to potential group members — by overnight mail if you need them right away!

Video Clips. You'll see them on almost all itinerary pages, in the left-hand column. They're each about two minutes long. To play them, you'll need a computer with a sound card and a good set of speakers. Also, a (free) RealOne Player, if you don't have one already. These clips work best at higher broadband transmission speeds (DSL, or cable, or T1), but they will also play at 56K, if you wait the extra few minutes to download the file. 56K users should not try to "enable instant playback" in the Real Player setup screen. That doesn't work.

Foreign Language Translations.  Of the 120 "catalog" itineraries published here, roughly two dozen venture into European territories in which one and only one foreign language is spoken. Whenever you encounter such an itinerary here in this web site, you can view its foreign language text version by clicking on the little icon you see above. Once you are in the foreign language text version, you can click again and actually hear it spoken aloud by a native foreign language speaker. A RealOne Player is required. While listening to the foreign language, you can toggle back and forth between the English and translated text for a live translation exercise, in real time. A great learning tool for the classroom!

On the Road Travel Guides.  Clickable from any country selection on the pick-a-trip travel map, this useful icon gives access to dozens of essay-length text documents focusing on the historical, cultural and contemporary features of the country destination. Tour guides employed by this company (and by other companies, we're told) regularly consult these essays from convenient cybercafes en route. So do researchers in schools and universities in the United States. You've got them all here to look at. Click on the icon above for a typical example — what you need to know about the United Kingdom, before going there.

Let's go!  Here's where your chosen catalog or custom itinerary gets posted as part of your own group-private web site, where your travelers get to sign up on line, where you get to review all matters of group registration, where all official company documents are posted, and where you can read through book-length compendia of educational materials relating to travel destinations worldwide. Visitors are given access to TripThink, the all-new custom trip planner. Check it out now. We're going!!

Getting back to passports. This is the magic icon you want to use, at least once. It leads you to a quickie response form, which, when filled out and sent back to us, will move your travel plans forward, big time. It will get you a colorful enrollment kit, a free Fanny Pak, and a telephone call from one of our friendly admissions coordinators. It will get you a free trip to wherever you want to go in the world, and a lot of appreciation from your traveling students, their parents, and the members of your academic community. Click on it, either here, or elsewhere. Getting back to passports is easy.