Bringing Your Students the World

We provide superior safety; an innovative educational approach; value-packed, customized educational group tour packages for your every need. Amerigo prides itself on a dedication to service quality and at satisfying its customers. It's just some of the reasons why more than five million customers have already chosen Amerigo Tours.

Our management team all have educational experience to provide you with the perfect educational tour (some of our staff even hold a Bachelor of Education). We'll design a tour based on your curriculum to bring your class a real-life experience that they won't find anywhere else while at the same time reinforcing everything you want them to learn.

Making Sure Your Students are Safe

Safety is our number one concern. With Amerigo Tours, you can expect our guides to:

• Closely watch over your group.
• Know the people and places you'll be visiting.
• Always carry communications.
• Be trained and/or CPR certified.

When it comes to transportation, Amerigo Tours only uses:

• Experienced drivers,
• Buses equipped with the newest safety features.

We offer multilingual, accredited guides and a management team that is professional, friendly and flexible. We are happy to provide an extensive selection of enhanced services to custom-build the tour that's right for you.

As for price, we've got something for everyone and you can take full advantage of our volume discounts because of the number of tours we run. We take care to design a tour to meet your budget and expectations. With special arrangements in accommodation, transportation and meals, our packages feature the highest value at a price that's affordable. In fact, you'll save on everything from arrival to departure.

You decide on the level of service you need, from step-on tour guides to complete arrival-to-departure planning and arrangement. We give you all of the freedom and flexibility you're looking for in a tour company. It's the reason we are North America's leading inbound destination management company.

Collaborative Learning and Guided Discovery

Our educational tours are geared to involve students in collaborative learning through guided discovery. We organize learning around a few important foundational ideas specific to class objectives and tour themes based on your direction and instruction and our experience and knowledge of student education, travel and tourism. Thus students are expected to tie their discoveries and experience back to the key concepts learned in the classroom.

Student-Centered Emphasis

Our educational approach includes a student-centered emphasis supported by the following key principles:

• Guides act as team leaders, collaborators, and instructors rather than bosses.
• Learning is characterized by student action through an interactive experience, rather than passive receipt of processed information.
• Our role is to make connections (bridges) between classroom work and the real world and between what students already know and what they should learn through explanation and discussion.
• We promote cultural and historical experiences by grounding our tours within a realistic and meaningful context so that each element is relevant to students as individuals.

Genuine education comes through experience - every employee on our management team has former classroom teaching experience, over half our team has taught courses at the high-school, university and/or college level.

Strong Educational Experience

Our entire management team brings extensive educational and tour guide experience to your tours program. This allows us to better anticipate students' interests and questions, and allows our guides to relate information to students for meaningful learning and to generate involvement.

Our goal is to prompt higher-level thinking and to encourage reflection. We ask straightforward questions, but also pose more meaningful questions that require inferential reasoning, hypothesis-formation or the creative transfer of information to new situations.

Our knowledgeable guides are experienced at working outside of a script and entertaining a wide range of questions related to history, culture, architecture, art, politics, economics, geography, important people and more. They are trained to anticipate questions from students and to frame other questions to encourage students to explain their thinking and to support them in continuing to think and explore new ideas.

Amerigo provides educational tours directly to high schools, universities and colleges and full step-on guide and receptive tour services to educational institutions and student organizations around the world. Our educational tours include Canada and United States, as well as Europe and Mexico, with a focus on Eastern Canada (Montreal, Toronto, Quebec City, Ottawa, Niagara Falls and all points in between).

Educational Tour Services

The demand for our student tour services results from applying theories of cognitive science to the tour industry and an understanding of the unique needs of educators and students. We are absolutely dedicated to working with teachers to provide the finest educational tour program of its kind in the Canada and beyond.

Major Tour Themes

• Architecture
• History
• Arts and Culture
• Business and Economics
• Canadian/United States Heroes
• Communications
• Technology and Industrialization
• Culture and Heritage
• Ecology and Conservation
• Entrepreneurship
• Canada in the World
• United States in the World
• U.S. Politics
• Canadian Politics
• Science and Technology
• Building a Nation
• Drama and Theatre
• Women in History
• Democracy, Freedom, and Rule of Law
• and more, including combined themes...

Our behaviors and way of life can be understood through these themes. Themes aid students to grasp North American culture, traditions and, more importantly, the distinctive patterns of thought and action that have shaped and continue to shape our contemporary society.

We give you all of the freedom and flexibility you are looking for in a tour company backed up by real experience in education. With Amerigo Tours, you get the service you want, the experience you need and the value you're looking for all at the most affordable price available.