Kim Hatcher
Trip Operations Manager
Learn how our team works together behind the scenes to provide exceptional travel experiences.
Meet Kim
Who better to share the excitement of a BRT student travel experience than a former student who actually experienced a BRT trip! As a student musician, Kim had the opportunity to travel with BRT several times and was so inspired by her own music education that she pursued a career as an elementary and middle school band director. After 15 years of working with young musicians, Kim joined our team where she’s thrilled to serve students in a new way, sharing travel and music experiences that may just inspire a new generation of musicians and music educators.
Kim Hatcher
Trip Operations Manager
Direct Line:
Main Office: (800) 373-1423
Extension: 286
My favorite travel memory
I can’t narrow it down to just one so my top three would have to be: traveling to London and Dublin with the Marching Illini in college, my honeymoon to Hawaii, and our first cross country family road trip to Yellowstone, Grand Teton, and Rocky Mountain National Parks.
My hobbies and pastimes
I enjoy teaching private trumpet lessons, I’m an active troop leader for both of my daughter’s Girl Scout troops, I enjoy running and Orange Theory, and I’m always planning our next family vacation!
My favorite destination
My family has a bucket list to visit every National Park and State Capitol! This country has such a variety of beautiful landscapes and I can’t wait to experience them all.
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