Delivering a Better Educational Travel Experience

We recognize that, as a dedicated teacher, you’re constantly balancing a wide range of responsibilities, from meeting student needs to managing deadlines. At CSLI Tours, our goal is to deliver exceptional educational travel experiences for your students—while keeping the process smooth, efficient, and low-stress for you. We’re here to enrich student learning without creating extra pressure on your time or workload.

Choosing a Tour

Give your students the chance to fully experience the language, culture, and history of one of our exciting destinations. We offer a wide range of carefully planned tours to choose from, or we can create a custom itinerary designed specifically for your group’s interests and goals. Every tour includes enriching programs in language, art, or history that are thoughtfully adapted to your students’ needs and learning levels. We also take care of all the practical details to ensure you and your students have everything you need for an unforgettable journey abroad.

Enrolling Students

Once you’ve selected your tour, we’ll visit your school to give a brief presentation to students, explaining the trip in detail and answering any questions. We provide all promotional materials, including brochures and posters, to help generate interest. About a week later, we can return to host a parent information session for those whose children are interested in joining. From that point on, we take care of everything—from handling paperwork and payments to communicating directly with parents and organizing all necessary arrangements.

We Take Care of Everything

From airline tickets and consent forms to host family placements, hotel bookings, entrance fees, meals, and transportation — we manage every detail so teachers, parents, and school organizers can relax and enjoy the experience. A CSLI Tour Director is always present throughout the entire trip, available around the clock to help supervise the group and ensure everything runs safely, smoothly, and exactly as planned.

Safety & Security

For over 28 years, the safety and well-being of our groups has been our highest priority. All CSLI Tour Directors are certified in first aid and trained to handle a wide range of situations with confidence and care. We work closely with trusted partners—including International House World Organisation, Fairplay Voyages, and Manulife—to ensure that contingency and emergency plans are always in place. In addition, our team is available 24 hours a day through a dedicated contact line to support teachers, students, parents, and school staff before and during the trip.

Group Leader Support

At CSLI Tours, we value the time and dedication it takes to organize a successful educational trip. That’s why we offer one of the most supportive and flexible reward programs in the industry for our group leaders. Whether you’re a teacher, parent, or trip organizer, you’ll receive travel benefits and points that can be applied in a variety of ways, such as enhancing future tours, supporting students, or covering special trip enhancements.

If you’ve previously traveled with another educational tour company, we’ll recognize your experience by starting you off with 25 welcome points when you lead your first trip with CSLI.

Our goal is to make your role easier, more rewarding, and fully supported—every step of the way.

What Makes CSLI Tours the Best?

  • At CSLI Tours, we handle all the travel arrangements from start to finish. This takes the pressure off teachers, parents, and trip organizers, allowing everyone to enjoy the journey and focus on what truly matters—creating memorable learning experiences abroad.
  • Students have the option to stay in pairs or small groups with carefully selected host families, depending on school board regulations and group preferences. This immersive experience allows students to engage more deeply with the local language and culture by becoming part of everyday life in the destination country. For those who prefer hotel accommodations, we ensure a safe, comfortable, and enriching experience with full supervision and access to all the same cultural and educational opportunities. Both options have been highly valued by past participants, with host family stays often mentioned as a unique and memorable highlight of the CSLI experience.
  • Each tour is accompanied by a dedicated CSLI Tour Director who is available at all times during the trip. They help supervise the group, ensure everything runs smoothly, and are there to assist with any needs that arise along the way.
  • You never have to worry about being combined with schools from outside British Columbia or Canada that may have different expectations or travel standards. CSLI is proudly Canadian, and all of our programs are tailored specifically for students and educators in British Columbia.
  • Every student receives a certificate from an internationally accredited school. It is a great addition to any resume and provides a meaningful advantage when applying to colleges or future jobs.
  • We only book with major, well-respected airlines such as Air Canada, Lufthansa, British Airways, and Air France, giving you confidence in every step of the journey.
  • As a proud partner of International House World Organisation, we are part of a global network of trusted language schools in over 50 countries. No matter where your group travels, you will have support on the ground from our team and partners at every destination.
  • CSLI Tours is also an accredited Better Business Bureau (BBB) member, a mark of trust and transparency that reflects our long-standing commitment to high standards, ethical practices, and customer satisfaction.
  • We are committed to offering the highest quality educational tours at the best possible value. Our dedication to thoughtful planning, cultural immersion, and affordability is what truly sets CSLI Tours apart.

Travel Protection

Our recommended travel protection plan is Manulife’s Youth All-Inclusive Plan. It offers great comprehensive coverage at a very affordable price so you can relax knowing you’re covered no matter where your adventures take you.

Here’s a summary of what’s included:

  • Trip cancellation due to sickness, injury or death (up to insured amount)
  • Trip interruption due to unforeseen events
  • The cancellation of your school trip by the school board due to: 
    • a teachers’ labour strike
    • the school board determines there is a risk of harm to you during your school trip because of an identified threat arising from an event that occurred within 90 days of your scheduled departure date. In addition, the school trip, or a portion of the school trip, includes a visit or a stay in the area or vicinity where the event occurred
  • The Government of Canada issues an “Avoid Non-Essential Travel” or an “Avoid All Travel” Travel Advisory after you purchase your insurance, advising or recommending that Canadian residents should not visit a destination included in your trip
  • Emergency medical up to $1,000,000
  • Accidental dental up to $1,000,000
  • Passport and/or travel visa is lost or stolen during your trip, you will be reimbursed for reasonable travel and accommodation expenses until the lost or stolen travel documentation is replaced. You will also be reimbursed for the change fee charged by the airline up to a maximum of $1,000
  • Loss of luggage and personal effects
  • Trip interruption of your trip must result from any one of the UNFORESEEN EVENTS listed below occurring during the period of coverage: weather conditions, earthquakes or volcanic eruptions
  • Flight cancellation due to airline strikes or bad weather

For a full listing of benefits please read the policy here.