ACIS Educational Tours

330 Congress Street, Suite 5, 02210, Boston, United States
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About ACIS Educational Tours

Since 1978 ACIS, the American Council for International Studies, has been a leader in quality educational travel for middle and high school students and their teachers. We believe in the power of travel to open students' eyes and change their lives—and every detail of our educational tours is carefully crafted to help make it happen.

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Anita Su
GB

We just returned from our second trip… We just returned from our second trip with ACIS. Our Regional Director was very information, made herself available to answer any questions, and guided us through the process as this was my first time leading a trip. Although both trips were incredibly different from one another (went to Italy last year and Japan this year), the trips were very organized. There is a lot to process, but we visited many important locations. I liked how the trips were catered to my content area, art. Even though I had photography, ceramics, and painting/drawing students, there were activities and events that was interesting to everyone. Make sure you make that clear to ACIS before you decide on your trip!

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Emily Gustafson
GB

Amazing trip to France Amazing trip to France! I used ACIS to plan a trip to France for a group of students ranging in age from 7th grade to high school seniors. We had a fantastic guide, great meals, centrally-located hotels, knowledgable guides, and exciting activities. It was a phenomenal trip and I will use them again in the future!

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Matthew
GB

ACIS does all the work... ACIS does all the work. All you have to do is get students excited for a trip (super easy) and convince parents to spend money on their child's education (also pretty easy). And ACIS will even help you do all of that. They tell you exactly what to do and when to do it. Follow their instructions and you'll change the lives of your students.

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Addy
GB

Updated review The first couple of days were amazing. Traveling though Paris, having fun with friends, and leaning about a new culture. Unfortunately as the days went on everyone started getting tired and grumpy, including our tour guide. On our last day in Paris, our guide got mad at me for interrupting his information (a simple mistake as he asked us to let him know when to move forward) His response was extremely sharp and left me feeling embarrassed in front of the group, not for the first time. Although I too was growing more and more frustrated, I chose to stay quiet. Throughout the next few days he grew more irritated with our group until we dreaded our time together. Admittedly we're high school girls, experiencing a new culture and have made mistakes. Sometimes we were too loud at the restaurants he took us to, and he would easily correct us or one of the chaperones would. However, on one of the last nights his response was beyond correcting and tipped over into impatient, disrespectful and aggressive (in tone). He not only said we were too loud but singled out individuals as “embarrassing”. The next day he did come back and apologize, but obviously the escalation of his tone though-out the trip has made it hard to enjoy. I appreciate the trip and am very thankful that I get to spend this time in France, but there was so much pressure to be the perfect tourist, that it ruined the trip.

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Melinda
GB

Custom Route with Short Exchange for Language Teachers!!! We did a 2024 Spring Break Tour of Germany, Switzerland, and France and had another great experience with ACIS from start to finish. Beth was very helpful with selecting a popular tour from the catalog and helped my school customize the route to include two days at a school in Germany where we did a language exchange with students learning English. Our tour manager, Sam Harker, was integral to the smooth organization of the trip. Flights, hotels, and meals were as advertised and families were able to use the ACIS website well. Although the tours are expensive, it's so nice to know ACIS does a great job with vendor quality and follows through with teachers to make sure they are pleased with the experiences. One additional note: We were able to apply a student voucher from a cancelled March 2020 trip on our tour! My former student's parents were so relieved to be able to sell that voucher to a current participant to get almost all of their refund processed. I was really impressed ACIS allowed a voucher to be applied to an account so many years later.

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