Recruiting Students
Now that you've chosen a trip, it's time to start finding the would-be world travelers in your school. The larger your group, the more people you’ll touch through the wonders of travel. And of course the larger your group, the better chance you have of guaranteeing your own tour bus and
tour manager, the more assistants you can bring for free, and the greater the chances are for you—the group leader—to earn free travel, extra cash and
many more benefits!
Here are some helpful hints to help you grow your group.
Get the Word Out
Gain support and interest for your trip by promoting your tour in your school and community websites, newspapers and social media sites.
Hold Additional Meetings
Students are a busy bunch, and there’s a good chance that sports, clubs, part-time jobs or other extra-curricular activities prevented some from attending your first after school meeting. Same goes for the evening parent meeting. Pick a different day and time to maximize the chance that all interested parties will be able to attend. For added impact, invite a couple of enthusiastic students who’ve already registered to help act as your tour cheerleaders.
Testimonials Tell All
Develop ways to get former students and participants involved in publicizing your new tour. Arrange for an open meeting for potential and existing participants, and ask veteran travelers to talk to the group about their experiences and favorite parts of the tour. Have them stress the real-world benefits of educational travel. Presenting slide shows and picture collages of previous trips always creates a real travel buzz!
Fundraise Away
Fundraising is a classic method of lightening the financial load of a tour and of publicizing within the community. For fundraising ideas such as online peer funding, fair trade fundraising and classics like car washes and raffles, check out our
fundraising section.
ACIS is Education Scholarship
Publicize the
Travel is Education Scholarship Contest within your school and community. This will be great PR for your trip, and help you to entice students who wouldn’t otherwise consider travel due to financial factors. Learn more about our
travel scholarship.
Use ACIS’ My Account to Promote Your Trip
ACIS’
My Account features a number of tools designed to help you promote your trip and communicate with your participants. These features include:
- A unique Trip Site available to group leaders and potential participants once a quote for a trip has been requested.
- A "Tell Me More" feature that allows potential travelers and their parents to express interest before registering. This is a great tool to use as an online sign-up sheet during recruiting meetings.
- A comment board section allows you to communicate regularly with your tour participants about deadlines, news and events.
- The ability for you to email your group, and add and remove email recipients. Remind participants about upcoming meetings or payment deadlines and send new participants your customized Trip Site web address.
- A participant list so you can see which participants are making payments and to see those who are in danger of being canceled because of non payment.
Login today to start taking advantage of the many resources available in My Account.
Visit TripStream
Show prospective participants how much fun other students are having on their tour by visiting TripStream, an online community where ACIS travelers share photos, videos and more.
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