G.E.L - Travel with Purpose

GEL is the preferred outbound travel agency for Singapore schools, providing a one-stop solution to plan and coordinate the best overseas educational school trips for Singapore schools.

Our priority is to provide a SAFE, EDUCATIONAL and FUN program for you. Overseas Educational School Trips play an integral part of the development of the ‘Students of Today’ who are our ‘Leaders of Tomorrow’. Overseas School Trips allows students to travel the world to better understand the cultures and heritage of our fellow human beings across the globe. This allows them to better understand us as well. On top of the cultural and heritage aspects, out of the classroom learning is a proven method of allowing students to better understand theories which they learn in the classroom.

Experiencing history in Egypt and Malacca, IT in India, business in China, Agriculture in Indonesia, geography in Cambodia, literature in UK, Community service in Malaysia, are just some of the best educational experiences that will benefit our students as they see and touch these experiences in real life. The third important learning experience is to understand the education system of the various countries and share with them ours, allowing us to improve on our methods and at the same time appreciate what we have in Singapore. Over the years, G.E.L has seen the vast changes taking place in the lives of students when we organise Overseas School Trips.

We truly believe that Overseas School Trips will make the world a better place to live in and our students learn more in a 5 day trip than a month in the classroom. G.E.L will continue to work with schools and play an integral role in the development of Overseas School Trips through research, planning and organising newer and improved programs for now and the future.

•	This is a program whereby your school will travel to a foreign country to spend usually between 1 – 3 days in a school in that country where they will study,
	mix & blend and make friends at the overseas school, without any real obligations or partnership involved between the 2 schools.
•	Immersion programs are usually part or a component of an Overseas School Trip.
•	Immersion programs usually takes place when either school has yet to meet each other before and is an introductory visit by one school to the other.

•	University tour is a program whereby a group of students or school travels overseas to visit several universities during their stay.
•	The main objectives are to see the educational culture, learning system and to look for a future university for their future study plans.

•	Industry tours take place when students or a school travels abroad to visit companies, factories and businesses to study on a certain subject. Etc. Banking
	&Finance Industry Tour, Singapore Business Industry Tour
•	These programs are usually done by students in Tertiary education levels whereby they are required to do up research reports on the industries they visit.

•	Subject based are trips overseas which may be conducted by a School or a group of Students. The objective of the program is for students to learn more and
	be exposed to a certain subject.
•	Schools usually conducted Subject-based programs by selecting a country that is well-renowned in a certain subject or topic with good facilities, foundation
	and focus on that subject. Etc. I.T in India, Science in Singapore, History in Egypt, Chinese in China, Agriculture in Malaysia
•	These programs usually include visits to industries and certified educational workshops.

•	CIP focuses on students travelling to a foreign country to conduct charity work. Etc. community work at an orphanage, helping the less fortunate schools,
	donations to the poor
•	CIP usually takes between 1 – 3 days whereby a theme will be set for the program. CIPs area usually part of an Educational Tour.

•	A Twinning Program is an extension of an Exchange Program whereby both schools sign a written agreement to be ‘Sister Schools’ for a period of usually
	3 years.
•	During these 3 years, both schools will conduct Exchange Programs annually with activities planned to be continual. Objectives are usually planned to be very
	in-depth which should be achieved within the 3-year partnership.

•	An Exchange Programs is an extension of an Immersion Program whereby 2 schools have agreed to spend time at each others school. One school will go to
	that school first followed by the other school travelling to do likewise.
•	This usually takes place after an immersion program whereby the management of both schools have met, sees some synergy and therefore takes an
	Immersion Program to the next level and making it an Exchange Program.
•	Exchange Programs requires more lots of pre-planning between both schools prior to the program as there are usually projects and many objective-based
	activities involved.