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Why We Need Travel Today: The Power of Student Trips
Guest Contributor: Don Stinson, Director of Bands, Joliet Central High School, Joliet, IL Organizing a student trip is not easy. Between wrangling itineraries, addressing parent concerns (“Yes, Mrs. Smith - we will make sure the children are fed. No, we do not plan...
Meet a Fellow Director: Max Chernick
Music educators are at the heart of all that we do at BRT. It’s our honor to serve them, as we bring performance travel dreams to life for their programs. We’re excited to highlight one inspiring educator in the first of our Meet a Fellow...
International Experience: St. Patrick’s Day in Ireland
We’ve been taking students abroad for more than 40 years, traveling to destinations around the world that inspire young travelers to keep exploring. One of our most popular international destinations is Ireland, a stunning island nation that invites...
Don’t Wait! Four Great Reasons to Plan Early
Here at BRT, we’ve planned over 9,000 student travel tours in our 40 years of working with performance groups. And we’ve noticed that the most successful traveling educators and programs have one thing in common: They’re early-birds. When it comes to making your...
BRT Around the World: Our 2024 International Wrap-up
What do Kyoto, Venice, Melbourne and Belfast have in common? These amazing destinations were all explored by BRT student travelers in the past year! Our BRT International Team planned once-in-a-lifetime international adventures for nearly 4,000 students and adult...
Two Factors That Set Elite Travel Partners Apart
By Brayer Teague, Marketing Projects Coordinator, Bob Rogers Travel One of my greatest joys as an educator was coordinating performance tours for my school’s bands, choirs and orchestras. In 33 years of public-school teaching, I led 25 international and domestic...
Inflation-Proof: How We Help to Keep Your Costs Down
While inflation seems to be on a downward trend, higher prices in every area of life haven’t budged much. And the travel industry hasn’t been immune to the inflationary dynamics of the past few years. So, in today’s post, we’re here to share all the ways we’re...
BRT Payments – Now Featuring Trip Donations!
We couldn’t be more excited to introduce Trip Donations by BRT Payments – making it easier for more students to travel! Keeping trip payments simple and streamlined has always been a priority for us here at Bob Rogers Travel. With new Trip Donations by BRT...
The Magic of Band Camp: Make it Last All Year
For high-school band directors, summer usually means two things – a well-deserved break from the busy school year and an outside-the-classroom experience that you and your students look forward to all year. That’s right, band camp. ...
The personal touches that BRT provides. Your company gets to know the people they work with. I have never felt like a "number" with BRT.
Leslie Schmidt
Columbia Central Junior High School
Class Trip, DC Tour
I appreciated the flexibility Bob Rogers showed us with the billing and various payments we had to make. We thought we were adding more and ended up not but you were great about giving us extra time to work out what we needed to on our end.
Loraine Wistrom
Plum Grove Junior High School
Band, Chicago Tour
BRT is always on top of all details. Even when something has slipped through the cracks, changed, or something unexpected comes up, BRT is flexible enough to make the changes needed to make everything right. We have always been so well taken care of and the personal attention is what makes your company special.
Dameon Place
Pella Community High School
Band, Orlando Tour
This was my 5th trip with Bob Rogers, and I appreciate the professionalism and also the willingness to work with me and my students to make each trip the very best it can be.
Trey Jacobs
Nashville School of the Arts
Choir, Atlanta & Tuscaloosa Tour
You make the process so easy - step-by-step of what needs to be done, guidance along the way, available (and quick) to respond to questions and making me feel like me and my students are your priority.
Beth Vaughn
Bowling Green High School
Choir, New York City Tour
The quality of service that you provided us with was second to none. The organization and communication were exceptional and we always felt we were in “the loop” on things both before and during the trip.
Bob Mecozzi
Amos Alonzo Stagg High School
Band, Orlando Tour
BRT hands down has been the absolute best travel company I have worked with in my 18 years in education. My interactions with BRT have always been so much more than just traveling from one destination to another...the focus has always been on people and providing them with experiences of a lifetime.
Barry Houser
University of Illinois
Band, Ireland Tour
From the scheduling, to planning, to overseeing, to leading, to customer service, everyone involved was courteous, prompt, and hospitable. Everyone did their jobs well and turned the trip experience into something better than we had anticipated.
David Dvorak
Lakewood Middle School
Band, Nashville Tour
Very Organized - even when problems develop. We've gone on enough trips with Bob Rogers to know how BRT operates - always first class, always prepared.
Joe Carl
Sumner High School
Band, Los Angeles Tour
The whole BRT team was extremely attentive, accommodating and reliable. Every detail was attended to and my stress level the entire trip was at an all-time low.
Joel Vanderheyden
Jefferson College
Band, New Orleans Tour