Our year starts with the US primary campaign season and our first tour of the Iowa Caucuses in late January. In March you will find us at Cowdray Park in the UK – your chance to get great insight from the best of our experts all in one place. A new tour in September looks at the continued influence of organised crime in Italy. And in Oct/Nov we will be in Michigan and DC for the Presidential Election. Cuba, Russia, South Africa, Israel and Palestine continue to feature among our favourites.
Don’t forget we run tailor-made tours too. Just contact us or call 0843 289 2349 and ask to speak to Nicholas or Karen.
US Primaries Tour
Jan 30 – Feb 5, 2020
Who will win this crucial state on the road to the White House?
What We Do
We take you on incredible journeys, engage with people, meet politicians, and debate with the experts. Ask your own questions and make up your own mind.
Reviews
A Political Tour will open up travel in a way you’d never expect.
Read on for what our customers and the press say about our tours.
Tour Highlights & Brochure
We’ve released our list of tours for 2020
Do you know your travel plans for next year? Our brochure for 2020 should come in handy!
We’ve got some great new tours: The Iowa Caucuses 30 Jan – 5 Dec (please embed links) Our Experts Weekend takes place in Cowdray Park 6-8 March. Author Tobias Jones looks at Ndraghetta, Calabria’s versions of the mafia, 3-11 October. And we return to Ukraine by popular demand – 13-20 June to look at the conflict with Russia and the possibility of peace there.
Political Tours Directors, Nicholas and Karen Wood will be on all of the above tours as well as the US Presidential election tour in October. Please don’t forget that we also do tailor-made tours for any destination and dates to suit you – so long as it’s safe!
Experts
All our tours are expert led by journalists, leading diplomats and analysts, adding to your experience of a country.
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If you have an enquiry about any of our tours or a question that has not been answered on our website just ask and we’ll call or email you back.
What to Expect
A different kind of travel A Political Tour really gets you under the skin of a country. You meet dozens of speakers, politicians and ordinary people and visit extraordinary places. You get to ask your own questions and make up your own mind with an expert alongside you leading the way. It really is more like experiencing a documentary film than going on a typical group tour.
Our groups really are small with never more than 14 people (most groups average around 9-10). You get to engage face to face with people, as well as the experts, providing for a more intimate travel experience.
Our tour experts accompany groups throughout.
Fellow Travellers We attract a wide range of customers with more than half coming from Australia, New Zealand and the US in addition to travellers from the UK and Europe. Many would not normally join a group tour but find that Political Tours enables them to see the world in a way they never could by themselves.
You don’t need to be an expert in politics or foreign affairs to join us. Most customers are not. Everyone has an enquiring mind. And we provide useful reading lists if you want to know more about a place before you travel.
We plan and execute all our tours Unlike many travel companies we don’t rely on destination management companies to do our work. We explore, research and set up all our own tours.
Value for Money
Most meals are included as well as all local transport and stays in centrally located hotels. And with all of the things we pack into each journey – research, guidance, meetings and different places we visit – regular Political Tours customers say we are great value for money.
Day Tours & Private Group Tours
Political Tours also arranges Day Tours with experts around the world. We can also create a private group tour tailored to your own requirements. This could be for a group of friends, or a business, school, university or institution.