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We’re delighted to be celebrating 70 years of Specialised Travel, making us the longest running concert touring company in the UK. From our origins in post-war Europe to our position as the world’s leading performing arts travel company, we take this opportunity to reflect on the history and achievements that have shaped our organisation over […]

As we approach the end of 2024, we are looking back on this year’s season, and all of our successful tours and wonderful groups! Here are some of the top stats of 2024! 86 Tours Groups from across the globe travelled with us this year, all coming to enjoy the fabulous musical landscape of Europe.

In October, our global offices from the UK, USA, Mexico and Australia gathered in Berlin for our ‘Global Summit’. An opportunity to get together with colleagues from across the world, our time in Berlin was spent discussing tour successes, ideas and plans for the future, and visiting venues and sightseeing excursions that our groups regularly

We are very pleased to announce that with effect from 20 Feb 2023, ACFEA’s UK and European tours will be operated under the name of Specialised Travel Concert Touring. Why the change? Specialised Travel and ACFEA were founded together in 1955, ACFEA as an educational subsidiary. Many of our clients use the services of both and we

Say Olá to Saraswati! Saraswati is part of our worldwide network of concert representatives and looks after all of our arrangements in Portugal including Madeira and the Azores.  What have you been up to this summer?  Taking an enforced holiday! That said, I have just finished harvesting our figs and I’m about to deal with our olive crop!

Say cześć to Kate! You’ve probably met her if you’ve been on a tour to Poland — or any one of a number of European countries where she couriers. What have you been up to this summer? I have used the quarantine and quieter summer to take care of myself, cook at home, and eat clean.

Our first full season during and after the lifting of pandemic restrictions

Following a quieter than usual summer of 2021, we were delighted to put together a tour of Austria for the Zurich Youth Symphony Orchestra (Jugend Sinfonie Orchester Zürich). Under the baton of David Bruchez, the orchestra thrilled audiences in Vienna, Graz, St. Wolfgang and Salzburg whilst also raising thousands of euros for charity. Here’s a

International educational visits are permitted to take place from September 2021

We were very pleased to see that, in addition to the return of International Travel this week, the School Travel Forum has issued a School Trip Planning Statement stating that schools may now proceed to book future trips, departing from 5 September 2021 onwards. Following this, we are delighted to have received a flurry of new enquiries! Why do we believe that now is a good