What can you expect from a Global Team Travel tour?

• The best value for money with the best local tour partners in each field - whether it be sports, culture or tourism.
• Personal service. Each team that travels with us has their own unique reasons for traveling – and their own specific goals for each tour. We’ll help identify your reasons and meet your goals to make sure your trip is a complete success.
• Experience, we have personal knowledge of all of the tours we have offered over the last ten years
• Top quality accommodation
• 24 hour private bus
• Competitive prices
• No hidden fees
• Bilingual professional tour managers
• Easy pre tour communication
• Fund raising support

What is included in a Global Team Travel tour?
The complete ‘land package’ which includes;

• Hotel
  Transportation
  Daily Breakfast
  Tournament Fees
• All accommodation and lodging overseas
• Breakfast at all accommodation sites
• All transportation overseas
• All tournament participation fees
• Full time multi-lingual guide for your tour
• Extensive pre trip assistance including registration & fund raising
• Planned excursions and sightseeing trips to local points of interest

What is not included?

• ‘Air package’ – cost of flights
• Travel costs to and from your gateway city
• Medical & Travel Insurance
• Spending money
• Passport & Visa fees
• Admission fees to sightseeing attractions
• Any necessary medical fees
• Tour uniforms and apparel
• Meals (outside of breakfast)

Tour Planning Advice

• Start Planning Early!  Contact us immediately. Global Team Travel will help you every step of the way!
  
• Select Your ‘Tour Organizer’: This person should have the time and skills needed to communicate and work with everyone quickly and efficiently – usually via email.
  
  It might also be useful to create a small, dynamic ‘Tour Organization Team’ who can help cover all aspects of preparation.
  
• Tell us about Your Team:  The more information we have the better we can help customize the best possible tour for you.
  
• Identify the Best Tour for Your Team:
  Dates, Maximum Budget, Tour Options, Tour Goals
  Check on school vacation dates, season game schedules
  Spring, Summer and Winter Tours are available

Do you prefer to play in a tournament or schedule individual matches against hand picked opposition?
Be realistic when assessing the strength of your team

How many people do you expect to travel in your group?
Make sure everyone is in agreement when identifying the best tour for your team!

Customize Your Tour:  
Once you’ve identified your basic requirements we’ll help     you customize the best possible tour for your players, coaches & parents – on and off the field

Finalize Your Tour ‘Booking Agreement’:
We’ll help you make sure every aspect of your tour is exactly as you want it. Includes a summary of all costs, payment schedules. Make sure everyone understand the procedures and expectations prior to tour departure – especially costs.

Sign Your Tour ‘Booking Agreement’ and make initial Deposit Payment:
This will officially schedule your tour. Each person traveling will complete a tour profile through which the official group roster will be compiled.

Our online tour account facility will allow you up to date information for all players, parents & coaches

Publicize Your Payment Schedule & Collect Deposits:   
As per details of ‘Booking Agreement’

Open Your ‘Tour Bank Account’: 
This will allow easy transfer of any / all money as needed at any time

Global Team Travel Fundraising Support

• Global Team Travel believes that overseas travel is a luxury and a learning experience that should be available to all young people. We want to make sure that everyone can enjoy this opportunity regardless of personal finances.
  
• We offer the chance to fund raise up to 100% of the cost of each trip for each player. Every player traveling on a Global Team Travel tour will be issued up to 250 Grand Prize Draw Tickets to solicit donations @ $10 each – potentially raising up to $2500 per player towards the cost of their trip! We provide the prize draw tickets to each tour organizer.
  
• Our Global Team Travel Grand Prize is a Weekend for 2 people in Lake Como, Italy.
  
• The value of this trip is approximately $5000.

What sets the Global Team Travel staff apart?

• We are the most qualified team of experienced professionals in the fields of Education, Sports Performance, Sports Travel & Business.
  
• Our extensive and relevant educational background. Youth Sports is our chosen profession. Youth Sports is our business. Soccer is our specialty.
  
• Everyone has spent their entire lives playing, traveling, coaching and managing teams of players throughout the USA and Europe from youngest youth level to the highest college level.
  
• John Salvatore  President - USSF ‘A’ license (CEO, Soccer Extreme)
  
• Mick Smoothey VP of Finance and Operations. NSCAA Premier (CFO, U.K. Elite Soccer)
  
• Brendan Doyle  Director, USSF ‘A’ license (Residential Camp Director, U.K. Elite Soccer)
  
• Tim Horton  VP of Sales and Marketing, NSCAA National (CEO, Soccer Interactive)
  
• Craig McGinn  Sales Director, NSCAA Premier (Travel Team Director, U.K. Elite Soccer)
  
• Steve Roper  Sales Director, USSF ‘A’ license (Sales Director, U.K. Elite Soccer)
  
• Andy Broadbent  Sales Director, NSCAA Premier (Travel Team Director, U.K. Elite Soccer)
  
• Andy Roderick  Marketing Director, USSF ‘A’ license (High School Director, U.K. Elite Soccer)

Useful Planning Timelines:

8 months before departure: 
Passport pictures
Passport applications if needed

6 months before departure: 
Immunization procedures (if needed)
Check payment schedule
Start collecting ‘trading paraphernalia’ – pins, hats, shirts
Are all popular overseas
      
3 months before departure: 
Order a telephone calling card

2 months before departure: 
Purchase any necessary clothing, sports equipment, camera, electrical adaptors / convertors, luggage tags

Prior to Departure:  
Finalize your packing list…remember you have to carry everything yourself. Don’t pack anything you don’t need.

Packing Tips – remember You have to carry it!
    
Bag 1: Personal Items:
Jeans, trousers, laundry bag, shirts, tops, underwear, socks, casual shoes, sweatshirt, pyjamas, towels, toiletries (soap, deodorant, toothbrush, shampoo, conditioner, contact lenses, plug adaptors, etc)

Bag 2: Soccer Equipment:
Cleats (molded & long studs), shin guards, sandals, uniform shirts, shorts, socks, warm ups, practice kit, waterproof jacket, etc.

Bag 3: Carry On Items:
Money / wallet, small toilet bag, important documents (passport, medical items), reading material, pen and notebook. No sharp objects are allowed.

Note: Most US check cards, debit cards or credit cards can be used at ATMs throughout Europe.