e take great pride in the personal touches we provide to our group leaders. Our custom group tours reinforce our unqualified dedication to personalized educational travel services. Even as we continue to grow, our fundamental philosophy of providing private custom group tours with high quality educational travel services has never waned. Personal attention and authentic learning, for both our adult and school group tours, are still at the heart of all our educational travel services, and we will always provide private, custom group tours on guaranteed dates. As we expand we continue to develop new educational travel services and now operate adult and school group tours on six continents. With Casterbridge these custom group tours will always include a full-time tour manager, all-inclusive pricing, and private bus transport, as well as any other educational travel services that are required.

Our North American Sales Office employs staff members with extensive knowledge of all of the educational travel services available for adult and school group tours. After you call our toll free phone number or register online, we will provide a custom group tour quote, complete with a description of all of the educational travel services included, within 72 hours of your inquiry. Our Educational Tour Coordinators also make regular visits to meet with adult and school group tour leaders around the country, and/or to give slide presentations to group members, explaining the customized itinerary and precise educational travel services we provide.

The majority of our coordinators are former teachers or former adult and school group tour guides who have an intimate familiarity with your destinations or particular area of academic expertise. They will work with you to design your ideal custom group tour and to ensure that all desired educational travel services are included in the package.

Unlike with many other adult and school group tour operators, our coordinators work year-round in our office, which enables you to maintain one single contact throughout the design of your custom group tour. Quite simply, our friendly and knowledgeable Travel Coordinators, by utilizing our impressive range of educational travel services, will provide you with an unparalleled degree of personal service and attention throughout the custom group tour planning process and recruitment period, right up until your departure date.

With Casterbridge you always travel on your own custom group tour, and we encourage the educational or school group tour leader to include elements from the classroom as part of the educational travel services we arrange. We are always pleased to fine-tune your custom group tour until it meets your exact educational and, whenever possible, budgetary requirements. Both adult and school group tours enjoy thematic customized programs, or have thematic or chronological sightseeing days created and included as part of our educational travel services.

The same level of attention an adult or school group tour leader experiences from our educational travel services continues when the group arrives at its tour destination. A Casterbridge Tour Manager / Guide will accompany your custom group tour from airport arrival to airport departure, 24 hours a day.

The Tour Manager/Guide is for the exclusive use of your group during the tour, and each ensures that the educational travel services every group expects are carried out through the entire custom group tour program. Most of our competitors are high volume school group tour operators that provide very few educational travel services, and rarely offer the caliber of personalized service that our independent, custom group tours receive.

As the only tour operator offering private adult and school group tours with genuine personal service, as well as custom group tours designed specifically for each leader, it is no surprise there is a constantly increasing demand for the unique educational travel services that we offer. As most of our competitors are high volume operators, it becomes difficult for them to offer any personalized service to groups once a group is on tour. Furthermore, their groups and participants are often combined and tour dates may be changed at the last minute without the group leader's consent to take advantage of the discounted airfares that are often made available to tour operators.

Adult and school group tour leaders can also visit Casterbridge E-Tours now to create their own custom group tour, as well as to submit a list of the desired educational travel services to be included in the program.