Catholic School Travel With ACIS
With over forty years of educational travel experience and custom offerings you won’t find elsewhere, ACIS is uniquely prepared to partner with Catholic Schools to bring their students abroad for the experience of a lifetime.
Our Specialty is Global Education
An educational tour is the chance for students to explore the wider world and seek out meaning in both learning and faith. Students come back from their tours inspired, ready to make change in the world.
“My kids are changed. They see the world differently now.” —ACIS Group Leader Robert C.
“This was a trip like no other. A trip that lingers. A trip that makes you look back and think ‘You can do anything’.” —ACIS Student Traveler
For Students, An ACIS Tour Means
Why Educators Choose ACIS
Ease of Planning
The ACIS Team provides you with all of the planning support you need so that the trip focus is on student enrichment and those life-changing moments.
- Premier, personalized service from start to finish
- Centrally located hotels to guarantee the most exploration time
- Quality Tour Managers who can adapt to group interests
- 24/7 overseas communications
Flexibility and Customization
We want your tour to meet your educational needs and then some. As part of our top-tier planning services, we can customize existing itineraries and build new ones from scratch.
Thanks to our amazing overseas supplier network, we also offer special opportunities that you won’t find anywhere else such as:
- Private Masses at St. Peter’s Basilica
- Meetings with members of the local clergy
- Special visits to chapels unseen by standard tours
- Time built in for attending Mass on Sundays or as requested throughout the itinerary by the group
Get a step-by-step guide on how to plan an educational tour with ACIS!
A Larger Impact for Your School
When students come back from an ACIS Tour, inspired by the world they have explored, the ripple effects for your school can be enormous.
Seeing new places and understanding cultural differences is a crucial step to becoming a global citizen, and they will bring back critical thinking skills to take their education, in high school or beyond, to the next level.
A travel program is an excellent way to attract new enrollment, as parents seek out the best opportunities for their child’s education and look for standout extracurriculars.
After all, when the educational opportunity of a lifetime becomes a core value of your school, you earn a major advantage in demonstrating the value of your program.
The sheer exposure to another culture via travel abroad alters the perspectives and perceptions of a student, and this educational experience is frequently a compilation of mini “light bulb” moments as the student explores museums, eats something new, practices a foreign language, or engages directly with a resident.”
ACIS Group Leader Mary Claire K.
And sometimes travel becomes so integral to the school mission, it can even have an impact on the physical building.
Read how Cardinal Gibbons High School transformed one of their main public spaces with inspiration from their ACIS Travels.
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Did You Know?
ACIS trips are independently deemed so educational that teachers can earn professional development units and students can earn college credit!
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ACIS offers 200+ customizable itineraries to destinations around the world, any one of which would be a great trip for history teachers. Let’s work together and change students’ lives.