UNIQUE FIELD TRIPS FOR UNIVERSITIES
Why buy off-the-shelf when you can get tailor-made at a highly competitive price?
No two GeoTenerife field trips are the same because every element is adjusted to your requirements.
No two GeoTenerife field trips are the same because every element is adjusted to your requirements.
GeoTenerife provides outstanding and unique educational opportunities for students to widen their knowledge and transferrable skills.
GeoIntern: GeoTenerife is the specialist UK science tour operator behind the highly successful GeoIntern summer training programme. Run in association with the Canary Island volcanology institute, it’s a programme that places undergrad and post-graduate students in active R+D projects where they can learn a range of highly transferable skills over the course of four weeks out in the field and in the laboratory. The programme is heavily oversubscribed year after year, and we have trained students from across the globe and a range of universities. You can see their progress on our dedicated Twitter feed @GeoIntern and via GeoTenerife on Facebeook and Instagram. Their video testimonials are posted on our GeoTenerife YouTube channel.
Field School: Through our Field School we develop and run courses across a range of subjects throughout the year in association with local and international institutions. For 2020/21, we are holding innovative field courses for Science Communication, Marine Biology, Botany, Volcanology, Hydrology and Geothermal Exploration.
Scholarships: We are committed to opening our programmes as far as possible to enable access to deserving students. For this purpose we offer scholarships to extraordinary candidates. To date our scholars have come from Canada, Chile, Senegal, Trinidad and Tobago, UK and the USA and you can see their progress on our Twitter feed @GeoTScholar, and their testimonial videos on our GeoTenerife YouTube channel. We are passionate about making our programmes accessible to talented young scientists.
Tenerife is an extraordinary destination for science field trips – a biodiversity hotspot in the Atlantic with more geological diversity than Hawai’i. Despite its small size, it has six distinct ecosystems with 140 plant species endemic to this island alone and an array of microclimates from shoreline to mountaintop.
It is also beautiful, with the best weather on the planet with steady year-round temperatures and sunshine thanks to the prevailing trade winds.
Tenerife is the largest of the seven Canary Islands. It is punctured by over 1500 water galleries reaching down to some 5 km deep and a complex network of lava tunnels. Its “laurisilva” forests are some of the surviving few in the world. Of genuine interest to botanists and naturalists, they are home to many rare endemic species of animals and plants. Tenerife is also home to the world’s third largest volcano, Teide, a World Heritage Site. It measures 7,500m from ocean floor to summit.
The uneven and steep orography of the island and its variety of climates gave rise to a diversity of landscapes and geographical and geological formations. From the National Park, with its extensive pine forests, to volcanic landscape at the summit of Teide and Malpais de Guimar, to giant cliffs at Los Gigantes with their vertical precipices. Semi-desert areas abound in the south with drought-resistant plants and other areas range from those protected and enclosed in mountains such as Montaña Roja and Montaña Pelada, valleys and forests with subtropical vegetation and climate, to the deep gorges and precipices at Anaga and Teno.
All of this in an island you can drive right round in under two hours.
Our students and teachers rate our trips as “excellent” or “very good” and our groups rebook with us year after year. Here’s why:
UK Accreditation: We are a British company and members of ABTA, the UK Travel Trade Association.
Local Knowledge: GeoTenerife has a fully-owned subsidiary and fulltime staff on the island of Tenerife (Viajes y Prácticas Científicas GeoTenerife SL). This is important, as it means we are:
As soon as you book with us, you will be assigned your own dedicated coordinator in Tenerife who will help you from start to finish:
We own our very-own Field Trip Centre on the island. Having worked with hotels for our groups in the past, we came to the conclusion that having our students share their accommodation with tourists was not ideal for educational purposes. We wanted to provide an environment for accommodation that was conducive to learning. In 2018-19 we have undertaken a large capital investment to fully renovate and restore our historic HQ to accommodate groups of up to 36, with all the parallel facilities and amenities required for science groups.
We are dedicated to the Canary Islands. We have invested heavily in our infrastructure to enable us to deliver the best educational trips at competitive prices.
We don’t run field trips anywhere else. We like to work in 12-month a year sunshine, with the longest hours of daylight on the planet. It means we get a lot crammed in! We are also passionate about Tenerife science education destination, and we constantly strive to improve all aspects of your students’ learning experience.
Take a look at our Testimonials:
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GeoTenerife Field Trip Centre
Our centre is close to the pretty town of Vilaflor at the edge of Teide National Park, yet 15 minutes’ drive from the beaches and natural monuments of the south coast. It is the perfect location for an educational trip. For further information please contact enquiries@geotenerife.com.
For our university field trips, we can offer the following at our field trip centre:
The Field Trip centre is housed in our historic Canarian strong house at 800m of altitude that commands dramatic and uninterrupted 180-degree views to the sea. It is the oldest restored Canarian property in the south of Tenerife, with links to the very first Colonial settlers on the island. Home to noble Spanish families in years gone by, its fine features are a showcase of the best of local architecture and materials with thick stone walls of local volcanic origin and fully-restored wooden floors made of “téa”, the solid core of the native Canarian Pine Tree (Pinus canariensis).
The accommodation is arranged in twin and quad ensuite bedrooms with made-to-measure wooden bunk beds. There are two bedrooms with historic 2mx2m poster beds suitable for professors and teaching staff.
PLEASE NOTE: If your group intends to carry out any fieldwork on the island, you must secure a relevant permit from the local authorities. GeoTenerife can organise this for you. Failure to do this can result in hefty fines for the group concerned.
HOW IT WORKS
We assess your accommodation, transport and logistics needs and once you have booked*, we assign you your dedicated field trip coordinator who will help you to put together an innovative itinerary to meet your educational requirements and organise all the relevant elements for you.
We risk assess all our accommodation, logistics and activities, so you don’t have to. GeoTenerife takes responsibility as long as you abide by our common sense Field Trip Terms and Conditions**.
We are members of ABTA, the UK Travel Association, which means all our trips are fully underwritten and you can book with confidence.
Interested?
Email enquiries@geotenerife.com outlining the size, subject and level of study of your group plus the number of nights you’d like to stay and any additional requirements or comments. We will check availability and send you an estimate and agree a basic outline for your trip.
Once you book* we put you straight in touch with your dedicated field trip coordinator who will spend time assessing all your specific requirements for your trip before scheduling your detailed itinerary and setting everything up on your behalf.
The same coordinator will meet you at the airport on arrival, and accompany you throughout your time in Tenerife to ensure the smooth running of every aspect of your trip.
*To book, we require a 10% deposit. Please note your booking is not secure until you have paid your deposit. Balance due 12 weeks before travel.
Please note our trips do NOT include flights and those are your responsibility to book. We do collaborate with a local partner that can organise your flights for you and we would be happy to put you in touch, or you can use online comparison sites like SkyScanner. There are so many low cost options available to Tenerife, we just concentrate on what we’re good at…
Delivering great educational trips in the Canaries!
**Please note that all our trips are subject to our common sense Fieldtrip Terms and Conditions. You must read these thoroughly prior to travelling with us and adhere to them throughout
We are a member of ABTA which means you have the benefit of ABTA’s assistance and Code of Conduct. We provide full financial protection for your money.
