Free Travel Apps to Enhance Your Trip

Travel App Map

Whether you purchase one of our international cell phones or decide to buy one of our SIM/Data cards to use in your unlocked phone, tablet or laptop, we think you’ll love these travel apps! Trip Lingo Sound like a local with Trip Lingo! This app allows you to select relevant phrases for your upcoming trips. It will show you the…

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Travel Forecast: Plan Early to Keep Costs Down

Airport

Here are some major factors affecting travel in the coming year. We recommend planning, booking and ticketing your trips as early as possible to avoid as many of these extra costs as possible. FTI can book seats up to 11 months in advance of travel. 1. Oil Prices Are Rising In the past year and…

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Custom Volunteer Programs with FTI

Volunteer teaching in Vietnam

Whether you want to bottle-feed baby animals in South Africa or play with orphans in Central America, we have a volunteer program for you. Volunteer Packages can be customized to your group’s interests, budget, and time frame. We offer both Mission Packages as well as Educational & Humanitarian Packages for your group to choose from.…

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A Quick 411 on Travel Insurance

The expression “better safe than sorry” rings an all too familiar bell for most of us. It’s the go-to reminder that unexpected misfortunes come with the territory of life, and you best be prepared if they do! Take a minute and think back on a moment where you wished you would have played it safe,…

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Travel with a Purpose

Thailand

Our clients don’t just travel for fun though there’s plenty of fun to be had. They travel with a purpose. Here are 10 things to keep in mind when planning meaningful trips. Broaden your perspective. Travel is an opportunity to expand your worldview personally, culturally & politically. Experience new things. Art & architecture are great…

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What’s New at FTI?

Airplane wing

Book Hotel & Car on Our Booking Engine For our individual customers, we’ve ramped up our online booking engine. You can now get pricing for hotels and cars as well as access to our non-profit and student fares. Just make sure to mark the box that applies to you. If you need personal assistance, Sherry joined…

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Our Staff Travel the World!

Aimee in Spain 2012

Although we spend the bulk of our time making travel arrangements for hundreds of non-profit organizations around the country, we also take some personal time to get out & explore the world. This year several members of the FTI team have taken the opportunity to visit project sites, meet with hotel & tour vendors &…

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