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The A Level geography students from University College School embarked on a 5 day, 4 night trip to the spectacular island of Sicily. A popular choice for the school as this would be their third trip there with Rayburn Tours and for a group that consisted of human geography students and physical geography students it’s [...]
April 2013 saw the Geographical Association Annual Conference come to our home city of Derby and, for a fourth consecutive year, Rayburn Tours were proud to receive an award from the Association for their on tour Study Handbooks; this year it was for our brand new Sicily Study Handbook. The Sicily Study Handbook comprises a [...]
Iceland and New Zealand were considered the most welcoming countries towards foreign tourists in a ranking of 140 countries as published in the World Economic Forum’s Travel and Tourism Competitiveness Report 2013. In the report the country’s travel industry was ranked in a number of different categories, including the attitude of the population towards foreign [...]
Upon returning from their tour, all our groups are asked to complete a post tour customer questionnaire; this provides them with the opportunity to rate the individual elements of their trip, such as travel, venues, accommodation and excursions. Couple with this an overview of the service they received from their concert tour consultant and coordinator, [...]
It was splendid to be able to attend the Scottish Association of Geography Teachers (SAGT) Anniversary Dinner on Friday the 28th October as well as the SAGT Conference the following day, both in Glasgow. This is the 40th year of the Association and there was/is much to celebrate. As well as Dr Iain Stewart (of [...]
When thinking about taking students outside of the classroom to further their understanding of a subject, teachers are often advised to use a tour operator who is affiliated with the School Travel Forum (STF) – but why? We speak to Ian Pearson, the General Manager of the STF, to try and explain what the STF [...]
