Educational Tours News Archives - Latitude Group Travel

Fabulous Video of St Patrick’s College, Ballarat, Student War History Tour

May 5, 2018

Battlefields, Education, Europe, History Tours, News, Tours, World War 1

Last year’s winners of the Grand Prize at the History Teachers’ Association of Victoria Annual Conference, offered by Latitude Group Travel, was St Patrick’s College, Ballarat. This prize, which reduced the cost of a student History tour, meant that these students from…

Dreaming and Reaching for the Stars: Victorian Students Walk in the Footsteps of the Australian Diggers

April 13, 2017

Battlefields, Education, Europe, History Tours, Tours

Kara Taylor, a history teacher from Mildura, Victoria, has just returned from the trip of a lifetime. She took a group of students and teachers from three different schools (Irymple Secondary College, Red Cliffs Secondary College and Mildura Secondary College)…

Baby giraffe with 3 adult giraffes looking down at it

Service Learning and Safari in South Africa

January 6, 2017

Education, News, Service Learning, Tours

Giraffe photo courtesy of Animals are Happiness FB page Our Service Learning tours to South Africa include a safari at the end to ensure our students have an amazing experience viewing game. While it’s unlikely they’ll get a photo like this…

Hawaii Kiluea Volcano Geology Geography Tours

GTAV’s Teacher Professional Development Tour

October 5, 2016

Geography, News, Partnerships, Tours

Geography Teacher’s Association of Victoria in conjunction with Latitude Group Travel announces: Latitude Group Travel and GTAV (Geography Teachers’ Association of Victoria) are proud to announce that Latitude Group Travel is now the Prime Partner of GTAV. This is an exciting time…

Hamilton The Musical. American Revolutionary War Tour

The Hamilton Experience

July 20, 2016

Education, History Tours, Tours, USA

When taking one of our American History tours, including the American Revolutionary War, we highly recommend that the students see the wonderful, rap-filled production of “Hamilton”. A Founding Father with a fascinating story makes for an interesting subject for theatre…

What a week – two schools have each won $20,000 off the cost of a tour!

July 12, 2016

Competitions, Science, STEM, Tours

We had a very busy week last week, attending 2 conferences – CONASTA65 in Brisbane and CaSPA’s Annual Conference in Melbourne. Conferences are a great opportunity for us to share some of our amazing tour ideas with teachers and principals…

The World as a Flexible Learning Space

August 4, 2015

Education, Tours

“We travel, initially, to lose ourselves; and we travel next to find ourselves. We travel to open our hearts and eyes and learn more about the world than our newspapers will accommodate. We travel to bring what little we can,…

Why Students Should Learn Languages

July 8, 2015

Education, Languages, News, Tours

‘The Limits of My Language Mean the Limits of My World.’ Ludwig Wittgenstein Bill Gates, tech visionary and business trailblazer, probably doesn’t have many regrets. He led Microsoft to phenomenal success, featured on the Forbes World’s Billionaires List for 12…

We have moved!

March 6, 2014

News, Tours

Late last year we finally outgrew our old premises and made the move to some bigger offices in Port Melbourne. Our new contact details are: Latitude Group Travel D3.0 63-85 Turner Street Port Melbourne VIC 3207 Phone: 61 3…

Our new website & brochure

September 22, 2012

Tours

Welcome to our New Website and Tour Finder We have a specially designed Tour Finder, by location, school subject, performing arts discipline, sport and special interest! This will make the process of finding what you want easier. We custom…