For more than thirty years, Passports has built curriculum-tied group tours for American teachers and their students — itineraries designed around what your class is studying, led gate to gate by career Tour Directors who are educators in their own right.
Just your name and email. A Tour Advisor follows up with pricing and a starting itinerary for your group — no obligation, no deposit.
Plenty of companies will sell a school a discounted vacation. We build something different: a trip engineered to teach, three ways at once.
Tell us what your class is studying and the itinerary lines up with it. AP Art History walked chapter by chapter. AP European History that hits Versailles before the Louvre because that's the order students learn it. Conservatory trips with a working music school on the route.
Career Tour Directors with 20+ years of experience lead every tour gate to gate — educators in their own right, fluent in the regions they cover. Many of them host the talks in our free Tour Director Lecture Series.
Free curriculum-tied lesson plans before you fly, experiential activities on the ground, and reflection prompts when you're home. The trip is a learning arc, not a sightseeing checklist.
Every educational tour is backed by a library teachers can use before, during, and long after the trip — all of it free, all of it written by our own staff and field directors.
The budget operators quote a low sticker, then bill the extras a line at a time. Our day-one quote already has these in it — no adult supplements, no on-tour upselling.
Not included: passport fees, lunches, optional excursions, and personal spending money. We'd rather be specific up front than have you wonder later.
Every itinerary is built and refined by our operations team in Worcester, with decades of feedback from the road. Pick a region to see how we travel there — or have us design something from a blank page.
Where the alphabet-soup operators cut corners — meals, hotel location, on-tour upselling — and where we don't.
An educational tour is a teacher-led group trip built around what students are studying — not a sightseeing package with a school discount. A Passports educational tour ties the itinerary to your curriculum, puts a career Tour Director with the group gate to gate, and pairs the travel with free lesson plans and reflection prompts so the learning starts before you fly and continues after you're home.
Price depends on destination, trip length, and group size, so every tour is quoted custom — but the quote is genuinely all-in: round-trip airfare, city-center hotels, daily breakfast and three-course dinners, all ground transport, guided sightseeing and entrances, a full-time Tour Director, overseas medical coverage, and all tipping are included, with no adult supplements and no on-tour upselling. Tell us about your group and your Tour Advisor sends a day-by-day itinerary with a line-item price within 48 hours. There's no deposit until the plan is right.
Included: international airfare, hotels, breakfast and most dinners, all ground transport, guided sightseeing and entrance fees, a full-time Tour Director, overseas medical, 24/7 support, all tipping, the PassportsGo app, and your recruitment materials. Not included: passport fees, lunches, optional add-on excursions, personal spending money, and your domestic travel to the departure airport. Most families budget $200–$350 in pocket money for the trip.
We run tours for middle school, high school, and college groups, plus adult and alumni groups. Itineraries, pacing, and content are tuned to the group you actually have — an AP cohort, a world-language class, a music program, or a future-educators club.
Twelve months is the ideal window for international travel; nine months is comfortable and six is tight but doable. About a third of the group leaders we work with each year are first-timers, and your Tour Advisor walks you through recruitment, payments, and parent meetings the whole way.
We're family-owned and second-generation, with one office in Worcester, Massachusetts — not a call center and not private-equity-owned. You get one Tour Advisor from your first call to your post-trip review, an all-in price with no adult fees and no on-tour upselling, included overseas medical for every traveler, and a 5.0★ Trustpilot rating with zero one-, two-, or three-star reviews. See the line-by-line comparison on our Why Passports page.
One short brief or one phone call. Your Tour Advisor drafts a day-by-day educational itinerary within 48 hours — no cost, no deposit, no commitment.