School Music Band & Choir Educational Tours :: Parental Concerns Addressed :: Tourtime New Zealand
Parents considering allowing their children to participate in a school music, sports or educational tour with us should find reassurance in the fact that we are a family business and parents too!
Contact us with any queries or concerns you may have!
We put ourselves into your shoes! 
We know how apprehensive you are feeling, how you are being pressured by your child or children to give your consent, how nervous you are, how you are being persuaded to hand over your hard earned cash.
We know these feelings well. Our Managing Director, Ron and his wife Beryl are parents and they have been through all of this over many years. One of their experiences was when their youngest daughter, Sandra wanted to go to Hawaii to the Pacific Basin Music Festival with a Youth Band. After Sandra’s initial request (and pleading for permission) there was much discussion (sometimes even heated discussion) before the consent was given and the saving and fund-raising started.
I can hear parents asking… Was it worth it? Yes, it was – an absolute and definite Yes!
One of the first things Sandra told us at the airport when we went to meet her off the plane was:
“It was amazing how I was sitting in the Band between a girl from Japan and a boy from some other Country. None of us could speak the same language or even understand what each was saying, but when the Conductor handed out our music, we could all play in harmony.”
Music is an international language!
Sandra made some wonderful lifelong friends on this tour and her understanding and awareness of different cultures and people increased tenfold.
What else did she learn?
- How to be part of a team and to work together for the benefit of “the team or Band”
- To develop her individual and team’s skills against international competition
- To make friends from other parts of the globe with the same interests as her
- To promote her school/Band/team to an international audience
- To respect and obey the Tour Leaders and Manager while having awesome fun
- To appreciate the culture, customs, sights and activities in a foreign Country
- An independence based on older team/Band members whom she liked and respected
- An incredible yearning to learn to play as well as some of the other competitors
- How to have an unbelievable time with likeminded students, in another Country, without bending the rules
Sandra says - "An unsurpassed experience for which I am always grateful... Thanks so much, Mum & Dad”
At Tour Time, when we are designing a tour for YOUR school group, YOUR sports team or young people, we put ourselves into the parents’ shoes.
We pay attention to even the smallest details of how you will want your child to be treated. We know you will appreciate them having the warmth and comfort of home whilst in New Zealand.
We are not great advocates for billeting overnight as we know how nervous our youngsters used to feel about sleeping in a “stranger’s house.” We prefer to accommodate your children with the teachers/leaders in well known hotels or motor inns where they are all together. We have years of experience with accommodation providers throughout New Zealand and we know which places are excellent for sports teams or Music groups.
Use our experience and expertise!
Some of the small things which typical Tour operators arranging tours for school groups don’t even think about:
- When staying in Hotels we always ask for Mini-Bars to be removed from rooms
- We arrange dry cleaning and in particular drying facilities for team sports or Band uniforms
- We arrange plenty of fun activities like indoor go karting, luging, souvenir shopping
- Want to keep in touch with your youngsters daily whilst they are in New Zealand and know what they are up to? Tour Time will show you how!
Can you imagine your Johnny or Suzie touring with their School, Sports team, Band and friends, to one of the safest and most beautiful places in the world, New Zealand?
Tour Time Promise: we will look after YOUR Johnny or YOUR Suzie as if they were our own family!
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Parents: we encourage you to give your consent!
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Teachers or Group Organisors:
we encourage you to Contact Tour Time now so we can start our reliable and professional planning to make your tour a success.
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"None of us could speak the same language or even understand what each was saying, but when the Conductor handed out our music, we could all play in harmony.”
Music is an international language!
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