Getting Started in Faith Travel
Are you curious about starting a faith-based travel program? Looking for a way to expand your church’s travel ministry? Want to learn how your travel agency or tour company can serve religious groups? We have a wealth of free resources to help.
In-Depth Downloads
Whether you're just getting started in group travel or looking for ways to take your program to the next level, we have resources to help. Our free PDF downloads are full of expert ideas and intelligence to help you succeed.
Travel Free and Bring Your Friends
Our most popular download has step-by-step instructions for planning group trips that cost you nothing.
Group Games: Riddles for the Road
Find ten great games for keeping your travelers entertained on long drives. Includes answer keys.
Buyer's Guide for the Group Travel Industry
Learn from travel experts and tackle challenging topics in our deeply researched annual guide.
Your Group Travel Playbook
Interested in starting a group travel program and maybe even making money doing it? Our free PDF Travel Free and Bring Your Friends will teach you how.
Games Your Group Will Love
Looking for ways to entertain your travel tribe on long drives? Find a book full of fun in our free PDF Group Games: Riddles for the Road.
Your Guide to the Group Travel Industry
Learn from travel experts and tackle challenging topics in our free PDF Buyer's Guide for the Group Travel Industry.
Smart Conversations
Our podcast Gather and Go will help you plan, promote and lead better trips. Each episode features travel tips, insider information and conversations with experts that will take your group travel to the next level. Listen here or subscribe in your favorite podcast app.
How to Book a Motorcoach
Luke Busskohl of Arrow Stage Lines joins the podcast to tell us how to book a motorcoach and why they're so expensive.
Untapped: Travel’s Hidden Power to Solve People’s Deepest Problems
On this episode of the podcast, Brian Jewell explores research and ideas about how to deliver transformational travel experiences.
Unlock Andrew Zimmern’s Travel Secrets
TV travel icon Andrew Zimmern joins the podcast to help us uncover authentic experiences in an Instagram world.
An Insider’s Secret to Seamless Tour Planning
Stacy Barry of Sharin' the South joins the podcast to share how receptive operators can help travel planners save money — and their sanity.
Winning Tours for Every Age Group
Tour operator Kyle Campbell joins the podcast to share how she builds tours that attract — and thrill — travelers form different generations.
Adult Group Tours Aren’t Dying… Here’s Proof!
Gen X tour operator Brent Dalrymple joins the podcast to share how adult group travel has changed and why his companies are thriving.
Insightful Articles
We have been covering group travel for more than 30 years. Our articles feature tons of basics for beginners, helpful how-to explainers and tons creative ideas for growing your travel organization.
The Right Skills for the Job
Here are five key skill areas that separate great travel leaders from average ones.
Can Small be Beautiful?
If the future of church travel means smaller groups, travel planners will likely have to rethink how they arrange — and price — their trips. But that’s not necessarily bad news. Here are a few benefits smaller groups could bring.
Is Transformation Just a Trend?
Is transformational travel the next big thing for the tourism industry?
Can Travel be Worshipful?
If the beauty of creation reveals something about who God is, then the diversity of environments on earth must have many different things to say about him.
Honing Your Travel Planning Skills
Do you have the essential skills to succeed as a travel planner in 2024?
Embracing the Power of the Crowd
Whether it’s a music festival, a women’s retreat, a ministry conference or a secular celebration, the emotional power of the crowd can add depth to your group travel experiences.
Travel Opportunities
Our OnSite familiarization tour program takes group travel planners like you to experience exciting destinations throughout the U.S. and around the word. Check out our current trip opportunities and click the button below to join our trip announcement list.
Join Us for a Student-Focused Trip to Myrtle Beach
We're headed to Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, and if you plan tours for student and youth groups, we want you to come with us! Join us for a FAM tour April 6–10.
We’re Headed to Kentucky in 2025
Our friends at the Kentucky Department of Tourism are arranging a FAM tour of their state in late spring of 2025, and they’re inviting our travel planner readers to attend.
Join Us for a Trip to Louisiana’s Capital City Region
The Group Travel Leader is taking a trip to Louisiana’s Capital City region March 20–24, and we want you to come along!
Join Our OnSite Contact List
Fill out this form to get priority notifications of up coming FAM trip opportunities from Going on Faith and our parent company The Group Travel Leader.
Essential Updates
Whether you're just getting started in faith-based travel or looking for ways to take your program to the next level, we have resources to help. magazines and e-newsletters are full of expert ideas and intelligence to help you succeed.
Faith Travel Minute
Our free e-newsletter brings you travel tips, destination ideas and business insights every month.
Going on Faith
Our specialty print magazine brings you church group travel articles four times per year.
Your New Favorite Newsletter
Get travel tips, destination ideas, business insights and more in Faith Travel Minute.
