Customize a Reality Tour for Your Group
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The trip we did with Global Exchange was the most fantastic trip that we organized in my six years at the Council. Global Exchange did a superb job in setting up meetings ranging from high level officials to ordinary Cubans from all walks of life. We look forward to doing future trips together. —David J. Fischer, President, World Affairs Council of San Francisco
Our Customized Reality Tours program offers an alternative and increasingly popular form of educational travel, exclusively tailored to the particular interests of your group. Whether yours is a university or high school class, a membership organization, church group, a group of professionals or a group of like-minded people, Global Exchange can organize your tour.
We create tours for a wide range of groups and organizations. Some of our past customized group participants have included members of established foundations, various city, state and private universities, high schools, and chapters of nationwide organizations including World Affairs Councils, United Nations Associations, the Institute of Noetic Sciences, Food First, the Vukani Mawethu Chorus.
It was exhilerating and beyond my expectations. The warm receptions people gave us. The opportunity to learn. The impact of it all on my perceptions and emotions. —Nancy Polin, South Africa Alumnus
It was a very rich experience as the trip covered a lot of different academic and cultural aspects. It was great to be exposed to so much culture, such as a concert, dancing, museums and even street murals. It takes a lot of professionalism to organize a trip like that. —Begona Zubiri, Cuba Alumnus
Our Reality Tours are structured so that your group can collectively gain a first hand experience of people and organizations involved in issues important to your group. We facilitate meaningful exchanges with people who form the political, economic, social and cultural fabric of the society and region visited. Through these informal and formal educational interactions, our participants come away with an informed and enriched understanding of the hopes, accomplishments and struggles of people from diverse backgrounds. Your group will have the unique opportunity to travel to various cities, towns and small village communities to dialogue with those involved in issues important to you: from health, education, sustainable development, culture and religion, gender issues, to armed conflict and the quest for peace, human rights and the impacts of globalization.
Our diverse itineraries always incorporate meetings, on-site visits and interactions with community organizations, government officials, journalists, scientists, university professors, doctors, writers, artists, musicians, dancers, environmentalists and representatives from various religious groups. Quite simply, we make it possible for your group to create fulfilling connections with the individuals and communities you meet while enjoying the natural beauty of the country and respectfully savoring the local culture in many of its manifestations.
Global Exchange organizes delegations to a range of destinations within Asia, Africa, the Carribean, Latin America and Europe. Countries we specialize in include: Brazil, Chile, Costa Rica, Cuba, Guatemala, Haiti, India, Iran, Ireland, Israel/Palestine, Mexico, Nicaragua, South Africa and Vietnam. We have also traveled to such countries as: Argentina, Afghanistan, Borneo, Botswana, Cambodia, China, Ecuador, Laos, Russia, Tanzania, Venezuela as well as the California/Mexico border. Please contact us for a full list of destinations we offer, and please feel free to suggest some off your own, as there are numerous, but not all, destinations we are ready to travel to upon your request.
Call, write, or email Malía Everette, our Reality Tours Director to discuss the needs of your group, where and when you would like to go, and what your group would like to accomplish. Because our schedule fills up quickly, and in order to ensure that we have sufficient time to plan and prepare an exceptional program, specifically tailored for your group, we ask that you give us as much advanced notice as is possible; 4--6 months for destinations to the Caribbean and Latin America, and 8--10 months for other world destinations.
After your group has an idea of its trip destination, dates, length of trip and objectives, fill out the Customized Tour Application and return it with your setup fee. Upon receipt of your application, your group contact will be mailed a preliminary contract with your dates confirmed and program highlights, an outreach ideas sheet and division of responsibilities checklist and a letter of introduction from the Reality Tour coordinator who will be working with your group. Customized tour applications can be mailed to you or you can download them here.
Costs are all negotiable, they vary depending on the point of departure, the season, the duration of the trip and the special requirements of each group. Approximate price ranges per person for our customized trips are: Carribean and Latin America, $800-2500; Asia, $1700-2500; Africa, $2300-4800; Europe, $1500-3500; and the Middle East, $2400-4000. Please call Malía for more information.