Your Role as a Group Leader
Our priority is to make your trip a success and to take care of every single detail. Your role is to supervise the conduct and oversee the well-being of the participants entrusted to you, and to set the tone for the group. That means giving your participants daily cues on how to react to their new environment and learn from it. When participants return home, their impression of the trip will be a mirror image of your own.

Your ACIS Tour Manager
One of the keys to success on the trip will be developing a good relationship with your ACIS Tour Manager. The tour manager is responsible for educational road commentary and for all operational needs and requirements, such as airport transfers, hotel check-ins, briefings, ferry tickets and flight confirmations. Most ACIS Tour Managers are energetic multilingual Europeans or nationals. Over the years, we’ve employed university professors, film directors, journalists, musicians, business professionals, and other creative achievers.

Depending on your location, your tour manager may post one or more photo and comment per day to TripStream. Participant’s parents, friend and family will be able to follow this TripStream online and watch their child virtually travel. Plus, they may even see their child in a picture or two!

Flights
ACIS offers a large number of regional departures. This means that some groups must change planes either in the U.S. or overseas, particularly during the peak spring and summer seasons. Timing, therefore, is critical. Discuss your connection times with your tour consultant upon receipt of your flight itinerary, and keep your group moving between connections.

For detailed information about handling airlines tickets and etickets, please refer to the Group Leader Workbook, which can be found at our Download Center.

Accommodations
Group leaders are guaranteed the comfort and privacy of a single room when they lead at least six paying participants. You may, of course, choose to share a room with a companion. Participants stay in multiple-bedded
rooms, usually with two or three beds.

You will enjoy fine quality meals en route, mixing both familiar and unfamiliar cuisines. Encourage your group to keep an open mind and be willing to sample everything.

Student Behavior Guidelines
ACIS participants are sent "Student Behavior Guidelines" prior to departure. It is important that your participants adhere to these guidelines so they may have a safe time on tour. Read the full list.

Bon Voyage!
Keep in mind that you'll always have a strong network of support from ACIS to ensure the very best in educational travel. For more information, read about our Service Guarantee.