Brochure Mail Out

Hopefully many of you will have received our recent mail out of a specially designed composite brochure containing a selection of our programmes. We have brochures dedicated to specific language and subject areas. If you have not received our mail out please let us know.

PASSPORT TRAVEL has been specialising in Educational Tours for 20 years. With a team of dedicated teachers working as your partners in Travel Organisation, we understand and cater for the special & specific needs required for taking a School Group on an Overseas Excursion.

We offer a variety of sample itineraries for you to use as a starting point when planning your school trip. As teachers ourselves, we understand that you bring your own ideas, experiences and expertise to the planning process and all itineraries are tailored to your specific requirements. We are also happy to create new tours ‘from scratch’.

For an obligation-free quote and itinerary package, copies of our other language-specific brochures, or more information on any of the following sample tours, please contact us!

LOTE TOURS

Passport Travel offers innovative and imaginative study tour programs for your students. Our tour co-ordinators are experienced educators, linguists and travellers who understand your needs as a teacher and tour leader. ....  OUR GREATEST EXPERTISE lies in our ability and genuine interest to create a customised School Group Tour for each School Client.  Effectively we take your wish list and devise a program that caters for the pedagogical, logistical and aesthetic interests of each individual client on each individual trip that they undertake.  

Learning a foreign language is an inspiring and life long pleasure which can only be enhanced by experiencing the authenticity of its origin.

NEW ITALIAN and MEDITERRANEAN Brochure!
call us and order your copy of this new production.

 We look forward to showing your students the world beyond their classroom! Go to LOTE Page

Asian Languages

There is a growth in Asian languages within Australian schools. Now is an ideal time to contemplate visiting China, Japan Malaysia and Korea for further enrichment within the learning programme. See Page 2; LOTE

African Tour

Our October tour; Africa Music, Culture, Wildlife and Community Aid has returned after an inspiring few weeks. We visited  St Judes School in Tanzania, subject of ABC's Australian Story programme.

If your school has an interesting in a community development based tour then our connections can bring you a vibrant and rewarding programme. Africa page on website click here.

HISTORY TOURS

‘To study history is to open one’s mind to the past, to embrace all that is great and tragic about who we are and where we have been.’

A history tour can be perfect tool for embracing first hand the past and our education department works very closely with clients to develop the right balance of required modern and ancient history syllabus visits with our personal knowledge of each region.

The 21^st century is a very exciting time to travel as most places in the world are accessible and open for all visitors to enjoy.  The proud heritages of traditional destinations such as France and Italy are now complimented with the new such as Russia, Eastern Europe, China and the Balkan states.

Page 3 of this newsletter has more on our history tours. In  addition Brent was working, this year, on a rather special 5 country history tour which was a resounding success and used a lot of his personal contacts in the field. This shows what can be done.
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5 COUNTRY EUROPEAN HISTORY

December 2010
Newsletter
Page 1
Introduction, LOTE, History, Music, African Tours,
Page 2
LOTE Tours
Page 3
History, Art, Tours
Page 4
Performing Concert Tours.
F.A.Q.’s
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Past ClientsComments:
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Travelling in 2011

With current exchange rates you should be off! If you are planning to travel to Europe, or the U.S. it would pay to gather together your currency needs whilst the AU$ is so strong. Most banks offer a Cash Passport (Foreign currency on a card) product. The latest offer from the CWB is a card that can hold up to six foreign currencies. The AU$ may not be so strong in 6 months. If you have one of these cards you can load it when the rates are strong.

An Amusing Travel Note!
Scottish Bagpipes Rescue Vienna Tours

Tour operators in Vienna have been deterring pesky rodents with bagpipes, protecting tourists from rat bites.

Third Man Tours was forced to close after rats proved to be a nuisance, but has since reopened thanks to the instrument.

“We get rid of the rats by taking a bagpipe player down with us, and they sound really great in the catacombs that tunnel all under the city,” said Third Man Tours boss Peter