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Grand Classroom

A Booking Platform for
Educational Student Travel

Grand Classroom runs guided educational trips for school groups — from the Grand Canyon and Great Smoky Mountains to Costa Rica and Iceland. We build and maintain their public marketing site and the self-serve registration portal that turns interested teachers and families into booked travelers — live at grandclassroom.com.

17,000
Students Traveled
65
Trips / Year
57
Partner Schools
2011
Client Since

The Challenge

Turning a Travel Catalog Into Booked Trips

Grand Classroom's business runs on a long cycle: a teacher discovers a destination, a trip gets organized for a class, and then dozens of individual students and families each have to register, pay, and stay informed in the months before departure.

That means the website can't just be a brochure. It has to present trips clearly to teachers, then hand off cleanly to a registration system parents can use on their own — without a phone call for every sign-up.

And because this is regulated student travel (Grand Classroom is CSTO-certified), trust, safety information, and trip-protection options have to be front and center.

The Solution

A Marketing Site Wired to a Self-Serve Registration Portal

We build and maintain Grand Classroom's public site, organized around how schools actually choose trips — National Parks, Historic Cities, and International destinations — each with its own landing experience and a clear path for teachers to get started.

From there, families flow into a dedicated registration portal at trips.grandclassroom.com, where parents create accounts, find their school's specific trip, register their student, and manage payments — including optional Travel Refund trip protection — entirely on their own.

The result is one connected funnel: discovery, teacher onboarding, family registration, and payment, all under the Grand Classroom brand and backed by the CSTO certification details travelers look for.

What the Platform Does

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Destination Discovery

Trips organized by National Parks, Historic Cities, and International destinations, each with its own landing pages so teachers can find the right fit fast.

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Find-Your-Trip Registration

Students and families search for their school's specific trip and register online, replacing manual sign-up sheets and phone calls.

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Parent Accounts

A dedicated parent login where families manage their traveler's registration and trip details through the trips.grandclassroom.com portal.

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Online Payments & Donations

Families pay for trips online, and supporters can donate to sponsor a traveler — all handled through the site.

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Trip Protection

Integrated Travel Refund trip protection lets participants cover their trip at registration and cancel up to a day before travel for any reason.

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Teacher Onboarding

Clear 'Get Started' paths guide teachers from a destination idea to a planned trip with Grand Classroom's travel experts.

Technology

Marketing WebsiteRegistration PortalParent AccountsOnline PaymentsTrip Protection IntegrationCSTO-CompliantResponsive Design
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