Trip Planner 2017-18 Trip Planner For Student Travel | Page 3

Find the right formula You’re an educator. You’re not a trip planner, right? Wrong. If you’re organizing travel for a group of students to play, absorb, compete, learn or gawk, you are a trip planner. So here’s the deal: A successful student trip is purpose, place and price … somehow mixed together. Your challenge is to find the right formula. And this guide can help. The NTA Trip Planner for Student Travel is loaded with places you can match to your purpose. Keep turning the pages to get ideas about destinations and learning centers and activities. Save those ideas until you get to pages 53 to 60, which have a list of tour operator companies. These travel professionals know the right formula, and they can help you get the right price, too. They work with student groups all the time. And every student group is on a budget. The tour operators who belong to NTA—the National Tour Association—are pros. They design tours. Lead tours. Dream about tours. They know what works and what doesn’t. They know wheretoeatwheretosleepwheretovisitandwhattodo. Yeah, it all kind of runs together. But they’re here to help. They know the right formula. So keep reading. And have a good trip, planner. NTAonline.com 1