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Administrator / Board member,
- Jumpstreet Educational Tours is a publicly owned Canadian corporation.
- The directors are Mark and Tom Clarke. Please call (us) anytime at 1-800-663-4956.
- Mark (psychology/Canadian history) and Tom (commerce) are both graduates of Concordia University, Montreal Canada.
- The company operates educational travel programs for "teens" and "pre-teens" exclusively.
- Incorporated in November 1988, the first tours took place during the spring of 1989.
- Jumpstreet has served more than 500 schools involving more than 60,000 families and their children.
- 75%(+) of Jumpstreet Tours participants are American citizens, 25%(-) are Canadian.
- Jumpstreet provides services to North American destinations exclusively, consequently Jumpstreet finances are not vulnerable to potential foreign tour-market challenges/volatility.
- The company has no debt and has never requested or required any loans, grants, bursaries etc.
- You, your "community at large", and any tour participant, may reach Mark or Tom (Company directors) 24/7 while your tour is in progress (1-800-663-4956). To our knowledge Jumpstreet is the only educational tour company with such a service.
- Night-time hall monitor/security was a Jumpstreet initiative in 1988. It has since become an industry standard.
- The office staff are active educational tour leaders with over 45 years (combined) experience in the field.
- Jumpstreet Tours tour leaders are trained in basic first-aid.
- Jumpstreet rules governing motorcoach operators are more severe than those of the federal bodies overseeing transportation for the United States and Canada.
- Jumpstreet Tours maintains $25,000,000 million dollars worth of liability insurance. Motorcoach companies are obliged by law to maintain 5 million dollars in general liability insurance.
- Jumpstreet Tours has never been sued, nor has the company been involved in legal entanglements involving out of court settlements.
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