25 Tips for Getting the Most Out of Your Student Tour Arrival Day

Arrival day can be tough. You’ve been eagerly anticipating your trip for months, with expectations building and excitement growing. It all culminates with a bleary-eyed...

Five Fantastic Days on the East Coast with ACIS

This blog post is written Pascale Hickman, Associate Teaching Professor at Montana State University and ACIS Tour Manager. In May, we invited Pascale to join our...

6 Reasons Why Travel is the Best Education

It’s often said that "traveling is the best education." I would thoroughly agree with this statement and if you’re reading this because you’ve organized trips...

Europe’s Most Historical Anniversaries to Commemorate This Year

As highlighted recently in my previous blog post, there are many ‘big ticket’ anniversaries throughout the year, each with the capacity to add additional context...

10 Technology-Free Ways to Occupy Yourself at the Airport

Whether you’re the kind of person who likes to arrive at an airport early, giving yourself plenty of time to prepare to find your gate...

8 Practical Skills Gained from Educational Travel

While I've spent a lot of my life becoming quite familiar with Amtrak, traveling to many places in the United States, my first travel abroad...

In Brazil, Don’t Always Trust Your Guidebook

weather is hot in Rio de Janeiro and you have already been to the top of Sugarloaf Mountain to see the the Christ statue, the...

Crossing the Green Line in Cyprus

The most interesting part of Cyprus is without a doubt the crossing of the demarcation line; the so called “Green Line.” We rented a car...

Walking Among the Dead

You know the sights, you’ve done the back streets, you’ve even bought the T-shirt. So now you probably want to get away from the crowds...

A Culture Vulture’s Guide to London’s Free Museum Tours

As one of the great cultural capitals of the world, London is packed with world-class museums and galleries that are famously free to the public....