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Head Count
Raise-Hand prompt plus live GPS. Dashboard shows who's responded, who hasn't, and where everyone is — on one map.
PassportsGo · iOS · Android · Web
The travel app
for your whole group.
Chat with everyone. Share photos. See today's plan. Check the meeting point. Open the emergency line. One app, one tap, one group. Free with every Passports tour.
On this page
- How the app works day-to-day on tour
- What group leaders, travelers, and parents each see
- Six layers of safety, from Head Count to emergency contacts
- Free with every Passports tour — iOS, Android, and the web
A day on tour
Morning roll call. Afternoon Louvre. Evening free time.
PassportsGo follows along. Here's what that actually looks like — four moments you'll hit every day, and what the app does for each one.
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Today, at a glance.
7 AM breakfast, the Louvre at 10:30, free time from 3 to 6. The current day is highlighted; yesterday is archived; tomorrow is one swipe away — with hotels, flights, and dietary cards attached.
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Send one message, reach the whole group.
Four chat channels — group, parent, private, Tour Director — with @mentions, read receipts, PDFs, and emoji reactions. No more "please forward this to everyone" email chains.
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Photos without the group-chat chaos.
Uploads land in a clean, moderated feed with captions, GPS tags, and a time slider you can scrub through later. The trip scrapbook builds itself in real time.
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Where to be, when to be there.
Drop a pin, set a time. Travelers get push reminders fifteen minutes out and a walking route from wherever they stand. Late arrivals surface on the Tour Director's dashboard automatically.
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“Is everyone here?” Answered in thirty seconds.
Raise-Hand prompts plus live GPS on one map. The bus-boarding ritual shortened from five minutes of name-calling to one glance — and nobody left behind at a gas station in Lyon.
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When the unexpected happens.
Local police, medical, and embassy numbers auto-detected for wherever you are. One tap to the Tour Director, two taps to our 24/7 line in Worcester.
Who uses it
Different roles. Same app.
The same PassportsGo — built so a group leader, a traveler, and a parent each land on a home screen that actually fits the job they came to do.
Run your tour from one dashboard.
Every announcement, every check-in, every photo — through you. PassportsGo gives group leaders the control surface teachers have been asking for.
- Bulletin board + four chat channels — post once, reach every traveler
- Head Count roll call with live GPS — 30 seconds instead of five minutes
- Meeting Points with push reminders and geofence alerts
- Photo moderation — review before uploads hit the parent feed
- Cross-group admin view for leaders running multiple trips
Safety, in six layers
Each one useful alone. Together they cover every angle.
From “is everyone here?” to “someone's lost in a city of two million” — the safety suite is built into every Passports tour, and you can see exactly what it covers before you ever leave.
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Live Map
Admins see every traveler's current location, color-coded by group. Background-only, auto-starts on day one, auto-stops at trip end.
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Meeting Points
Drop a pin, set a time. Push reminders, a walking-route map, and live visibility of who's already there.
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Geofencing
Define a boundary. Quiet alerts if a traveler drifts outside it. No noise unless something's actually off.
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Emergency Button
Auto-localized police, medical, and embassy numbers — one tap from the home screen, in 24 countries.
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Worcester backup
24/7 humans at our office, reachable in-app or by phone. Your tour's full context — itinerary, roster, Tour Director's location — is already loaded when they pick up.
Built for a student's pocket
Designed to disappear when it should.
Loud when it matters — meeting points, head counts, emergency contacts. Quiet everywhere else.
Start planning, or start using
Already booked? Open the app. Building a trip? We'll draft one.
If your group is traveling with Passports, log in on the web or download the app. If you're still building the trip, a Tour Advisor drafts a day-by-day itinerary within 48 hours.