Preparing for Spring Travel

As we begin our busy spring season overseas, we look forward to providing the best educational travel experience possible. To us, that means even more...

The Road to Opening Night: Improving the ACIS Pre-Departure Process

In August, the ACIS team gathered for our annual company meeting. There was the usual fun and frolic (This year’s events included pickleball, a trivia...

The ACIS Story

Once upon a time at the University of Sussex, a friend of mine suggested I interview for a Tour Manager job. It was with an American...

ACIS Culture of Care in Action: Current Travel to Peru

Travel, by its nature, throws us curve balls all the time - whether a strike, a weather delay or a serious political situation - and how...

Peter Jones on The Tune of Travel

With the passing of Burt Bacharach yesterday (Iconic composer behind hits such as "What the World Needs Now", "Walk On By", "I'll Never Love Again"),...

Travel to Egypt

The last time I traveled to Egypt was with the kids. It’s a bucket list thing. Pyramids, Mummies, and the Sphinx. I recall vividly those...

Peter’s Thoughts on the Queen

Growing up in London in the 1950s the queen was part of my post war childhood. An icon. Unchanging. She had been with us from...

Where have all the flowers gone?

“The answer my friend is blowing in the wind, the answer is blowing in the wind” I listened to a fabulous segment on the radio...

We Stand with Ukraine, and for Peace

We are deeply saddened and outraged by the events unfolding in Ukraine. Russia’s acts of force and violence are in stark contrast to all we...

We’re Traveling Again

This week ACIS has groups traveling all around the world! We’re in Italy, Spain, France, Switzerland, Costa Rica and more! Our tour managers are working...