Academy Travel

Academy Travel is an Australian-owned travel company, dedicated to providing tailored small group journeys for individuals and associations. Academy Travel is a qualified travel agency. As well as managing your tour booking, our experienced consultants are happy to assist with all aspects of your travel, including international flights, pre and post-tour accommodation and travel insurance.

Academy Travel is an open-age program and one business in our wider family of travel businsses including ADFAS Travel, School Tours and Sports Tours.

Academy Travel offers around 50 journeys each year to Europe, the Mediterranean, Asia and the Americas, each focusing on a distinctive historical, artistic or cultural theme. There is an average of 16-17 participants (and a maximum of 20) on any trip. Expert tour leaders and carefully planned itineraries create a truly enriching travel experience.

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“I have travelled with Academy Travel a number of times and I have no hesitation in recommending them to any traveller who wants an in-depth experience of the topic covered by the tour, whether art, history, music or architecture. The tours are well organised with in-depth information provided prior to the tour and knowledgeable and experienced tour guides. The tour groups are small and you can spend two weeks in the company of at least a few like-minded travellers with both cultural sensitivity and a sense of humour! If you are really lucky, the whole group is like this. I have been this lucky a few times ”

“We have travelled twice with Academy, and each time we found the experience excellent.

We chose Academy because we wanted intellectual content in the tours, and we got that. That content allows one to appreciate the cultural and social significance of the sights seen and visited.

The Academy tour guides were knowledge, and also considerate of the needs and interests of members of the group. The pace was appropriate to our abilities. The insights offered allowed one t concentrate amid the ocean of material we saw.

The set program on each tour offered a variety of experiences. Changes of pace allowed us to revive. The free days in the program allowed for participants to add points of interest of their own, and the tour guides were very helpful in making that possible.

Tours like this attract like-minded travellers and the group itself then adds another resource to the experience.”

“Academy Travel hosted Australian Book Review’s tour to the United States in 2016. The small-group tour focussed on literature, history, art and theatre. The program was well-thought-out, varied and balanced. The tour leaders were attuned to particular interests of individual group members and helped them where necessary to follow those interests in the different venues we visited. Many of the group had been to several of the venues before, but this tour took us to places some of us were delighted to experience for the first time. One of the excellent features was the number of private viewings and guided tours specially tailored for our group. The arrangements for international and in-country travel, accommodation and coordination of the visits to all the venues were impeccable.”

“We have been fortunate to have toured with Academy Travel on four occasions, with a fifth due in weeks.
Every tour has been well planned and capably managed. The company has been straight forward to deal with, including flight arrangements and independent travel before and after the actual tour, an excellent service, cheerfully taking the role of a private travel agency.
The tours tend towards a more detailed study of society, art and culture than tours usually achieve, with comprehensive suggested reading lists and itineraries provided long before the date of travel. A level of insight and understanding is developed far beyond the superficial of common tours.
The guides are universally capable and personable, clearly chosen for their expertise in the fields of particular interest on each specific tour.
Groups are limited to twenty, vastly more pleasant than the coach-full we’ve suffered elsewhere. There is time and space to get to know fellow travellers properly.
Another nice touch is that all gratuities and appreciations are tactfully dealt with behind the scenes, and there are no ‘optionals’; there are no out-of-pocket expenses.
We receive information from several tour groups with whom we’ve previously travelled; we read them all and find now we invariably return to the ambience, variety and depth of Academy’s offerings.

Hope to see you there,
Cheers
Annie & Tim Wilson”

“We have travelled frequently to destinations in Italy and Spain with Academy and have absolutely loved the experience. Everything is so well organised, accommodations have been superb and their staff are knowledgeable and enthusiastic. Our most recent tour was to the lakes and villas of Northern Italy this year – it was fabulous. The tour group comprised interesting and sociable people and we enjoyed their company thoroughly. If you are seeking an experience of new places, art, architecture, history with generous helpings of great food and wine, Academy Travel will have the trip for you.”