Group travel tours can be economical and fun to experience a new destination, but you must understand exactly what to expect before signing up.
Keep an eye out for group tours that provide experiences that don’t add much to the enjoyment of their destination, such as shopping stops or “factories.” You should be able to spot these by including these activities in their itinerary.
1. Adventure Tours
Adventure tours provide an incredible opportunity to experience world-renowned natural wonders and vibrant cultures in new ways. Take an epic hiking expedition across mountainous terrains, or bike along rough alpine roads; zipline beneath jungle canopies like sloths do on an alpine road; these adventures open your sense of freedom while fulfilling that craving for adrenaline-driven experiences!
Adventure tourism refers to any form of travel involving some risk element – both real or perceived. It can also be described as traveling outside your comfort zone due to culture shock or undertaking challenging physical feats such as skydiving, bungee jumping, or mountain climbing.
Most European tour operators provide adventure activities. Providers specializing in adventure tourism tend to focus on small-scale operators that target younger customers. However, once COVID-19 restrictions have been lifted, expect older Europeans to join adventure travelers as well; those with more disposable income and willingness to travel off-season tend to travel more frequently.
2. Sports Tours
Extreme recreation can be exciting and entertaining – not to mention physically exhausting and risky! But extreme recreation offers an escape from everyday life and allows you to reevaluate it once you have conquered a mountain peak or navigated turbulent river waters. To ensure its success and make sure it adds spice to group travel tour experiences.
Sporting travel tours provide students an exciting way to discover new cultures while sharing their love of sports with like-minded peers. Furthermore, students can improve their game by training alongside elite athletes or competing against similar-ability teams on tours.
Example Tours in New York allow your team to train at Madison Square Garden and attend Brooklyn Nets games, an amazing experience for any young football player! Alternatively, inspiring sports tours to South Africa offer unique cultural sights like Table Top Mountain and Robben Island for you and your opponents to take in a while competing against friendly local opposition and taking in amazing cultural sights like Table Top Mountain and Robben Island!
3. Educational Tours
Educational Tours go beyond regular field trips that consist of mundane bus rides to museums. Instead, these experiences provide students and their teachers or chaperones with an extraordinary learning opportunities. Tours may focus on subjects like history, language arts, or science or offer an in-depth exploration of a destination and its culture.
Discover New York City with your student group and discover it’s diverse Chinese, Russian, Italian, and other cultural neighborhoods that comprise one of America’s most iconic cities. NYC will open up your students to the vastness of our globalized world through sights, sounds, smells, and tastes!
Hemisphere Educational Travel offers expert travel packages designed specifically for your student group’s needs. All travelers, group leaders, staff, and chaperones will have access to Trip Account app as they travel on educational trips, allowing them to remain in contact with classmates, teacher escorts, and itinerary details throughout their educational trip experience.
4. Cultural Tours
Cultural tours provide a way for travelers to immerse themselves in the culture and traditions of a destination and gain greater insights. Such trips might involve visiting museums, historic landmarks, and festivals, meeting local residents; learning different languages; watching traditional dances/music performances; discovering foods unique to certain regions; etc.
Cultural travelers prioritize cultural experiences during their trips (McKercher, 2002). Cultural travelers tend to prioritize tangible aspects of a destination’s culture, such as food, beverages, and art but are also interested in uncovering intangible aspects like history.
Respect is paramount during any cultural tour, whether by dressing modestly, refraining from speaking loudly, or taking pictures without permission.
