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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 [...]
Belgium continues to be the destination of choice for a large number of traveling youth ensembles. Francesca Bridges, Rayburn Tours Courier, spent 5 days on a Band Tour to Belgium with Chorley Silver Band. Here she shares with us her most memorable day on tour…
It’s no mean feat taking 38 students out of the classroom to experience the triumphs and challenges of language learning, but this didn’t put Amanda Harper of Bennerley Business College off. She was so sold on the benefits of language learning, in fact, that she was determined to give all her students an equal opportunity [...]
After Bennerley Business College successfully raised funds to travel, we follow a day-by-day account of their language learning in Germany. I was first introduced to Bennerley Business College on Thursday, the day before our departure on their Language Tour to the Rhineland. What struck me first when meeting the Party Leader, Amanda Harper, was her [...]
