Italy┃Echoes of Empire

Tour Code: PL-A+MH-IT

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History PD Tour

Italy

10 Days – 9 - 18 January 2026
Professional DevelopmentProgram - For Educators

Rome – Naples – Sorrento – Rome

First Hand Insight

global epicentres

World-Class Lectures

This tour provides history teachers with an in-depth experience of history across the ages in Rome and the Bay of Naples.

Through lectures and guided tours with experts, teachers have opportunities to refresh and deepen their subject knowledge and teaching practice, and bring innovative ideas, techniques and resources back to the classroom.

PROFESSIONAL Development

This tour includes 26 hours of PD as related to syllabus content. Teachers should add the PD to eTAMS or their personal log.

Tax deductible for Australian teachers*

*Self-education expenses directly related to employment for Australian teachers, may be tax deductible. Seek advice from your tax agent or the ATO

Price Per Person:

*Twin-share accommodation
Single supplement available on request

AUD$5,490 *

 

Tour Highlights

The itinerary is designed to provide maximum educational value and is syllabus-linked.

Through workshops, tutorials and guided tours teachers have opportunities to refresh and deepen their subject knowledge and teaching practice, and bring innovative ideas, techniques and resources back to the classroom.

Ancient Museums and Sites

  • Pompeii

  • Paestum

  • Nero’s Imperial Villa, Anzio

  • Domus Aurea

  • Palatine Hill

  • Ara Pacis

  • Ostia Antica

Modern Museums and Sites

  • Salerno and Anzio

  • Piano delle Orme WWII Museum

  • EUR

  • Janiculum Hill

  • Foro Italico

  • Museum of Liberation

Lectures

  • Fascist Architecture in Rome – Dr Flavia Marcello

  • Connecting tour content to the classroom – Josh Levy

FAQ’s

  • Age:  Participants must be over 18 years of age to participate in the program

    Travel documentation:  

    Participants must ensure that they:

    • Have a valid passport with six months’ validity from their return date to Australia

    • Obtain any required visas for travel to the destination country, plus any additional visas required for holders of non-Australian passports

    • Obtain their own travel insurance

  • This tour includes hours of PD as related to syllabus content. Teachers should add the PD to eTAMS or their personal log.

  • Register Interest to join the mailing list for updates on this tour. Once the tour reaches its minimum interest requirement of attending teachers, you will receive a copy of the booking form and tour payment schedule. A non-refundable deposit will then be payable to confirm your place.

    The final balance of the tour price is due 120 days prior to departure.

  • You certainly can! Anyone can travel on our PL tours, however, non-teachers should be aware the content will be targeted to the relevant syllabus and based on a certain level of prior knowledge. Should any participant choose not to attend one of the planned activities, there would be no refund for an unused portion of the tour.

    Please note - Participants must be over 18 years of age to attend the tour, and attendees who are not teachers in Australia may not be able to acquire PL hours or tax deductions.

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BOOKING TERMS & CONDITIONS

Bookings
You are booking with Libertas Travel Pty Limited, 20-40 Meagher Street, Chippendale NSW 20087  (ABN 30 154 091 433).  By booking with us you have agreed to be bound by the terms and conditions set out below.

Tour price 
The tour price is AUD $6,290 per person (land only – single room accommodation); or AUD $5,490 per person (land only – twin-room accommodation)

Tour inclusions 
The land price of the tour includes:

  • Nine nights accommodation in 3-star hotels

  • Breakfast daily

  • Three lunches

  • Five dinners

  • All land transportation

  • Reserved entrance to sites and museums

  • Taxes and tipping for included services

  • Expert local guides

  • Experienced Tour Manager

  • Introductory lectures with acacdemic and teacher leaders

Not included
The tour price does not include:

  • Return international airfares 

  • Airport transfers

  • Travel insurance

  • Passport and any required visa waiver costs 

  • Personal spending 

  • Lunches

  • Four dinners 

Tour registration and payments
Registrations are open.  

Deposit
A non-refundable deposit of AUD $1,000 will be payable once the tour is confirmed. You will receive an invoice and can pay either by EFT to the Libertas Travel bank account, or online by Visa or Mastercard (a surcharge of 1.7% applies).

If the tour does not reach the minimum number of participant to proceed, then the deposit will be refunded in full. 

Tour balance payments
If the tour proceeds, a final balance payment will be due on 30 November 2025. 

Changes by us
Every effort will be made to adhere to the agreed touring itinerary; however, Libertas Travel reserves the right to change or modify the agreed itinerary whenever, in its judgement, conditions warrant or if it deems it necessary for the comfort, convenience, or safety of the tour.   

If a service or facility becomes unavailable due to circumstances beyond our control (‘force majeure’) and no alternative arrangement of comparable monetary value is available, we will attempt to substitute the best alternative available.

Force Majeure
Force majeure includes any event which Libertas Travel or its suppliers could not, even with all due care, foresee or avoid (e.g. advice against travel from the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT), war, threat of war, riot, civil strife, industrial dispute, epidemics, pandemic, health risks, terrorist activity, natural or nuclear disaster, fire or adverse weather conditions, technical or maintenance problems with transport, changes imposed by cancellation or rescheduling of flights by an airline or main charterer, the alteration of airline or aircraft type).

Cancellation by us
Libertas Travel reserves the right to cancel a tour for any reason, including failure to reach minimum tour participant numbers. Except for force majeure (as outlined above) or your failure to pay the final balance, we will make a final decision to proceed or cancel a tour no less than 90 days before departure. 

If you have paid in full, we will refund all moneys paid, excluding an administration fee and any payment made for travel insurance. No other compensation will be paid in the event of cancellation by Libertas Travel. The refund of moneys paid for tour costs will be the full extent of our liability. 

Cancellation by you
If, after confirmation that the tour is proceeding, you decide to cancel your tour booking, the following charges apply, based on the day we receive written notification:

  • More than 60 days before departure: Forfeit of tour deposit

  • 60-45 days: Cancellation fee of 25% of the total tour price

  • 44-35 days: Cancellation fee of 75% of the total tour priced

  • 34 days or less: Cancellation fee of 100% of the total tour price 

  • No show: Cancellation fee of 100% of the total amount due 

Unused portion of the tour
Refunds are not provided for any unused portions of the tour.

Travel insurance
Libertas Travel requires all tour participants to obtain personal travel insurance covering the full duration of their time on tour.  Libertas Travel can arrange a policy with our insurance partner, Cover-More if requested. 

In the event of any act, omission or otherwise whilst on tour, relating to or arising from the tour, travellers must call on the terms of their own travel Insurance before any call or claim is made on Libertas Travel or its insurers.   Travellers must agree to indemnify Libertas Travel and all its entities against all third-party claims, actions, damages and remedies which may be brought against us in respect of their participation in the tour.

Passport and visa
It is your responsibility to ensure you have a valid passport for your travel, together with all necessary visas, innoculations and preventative medicines as may be required for the tour duration. Passports must be valid for six months after the last date of travel with Libertas Travel as set out in the tour itinerary.  Any information about these matters provided by Libertas Travel is given in good faith but without responsibility on the part of Libertas Travel.

Illness or disability
If you have a disability or medical condition and need special assistance whilst on tour, please notify Libertas Travel at the time you pay the non-refundable tour deposit. We will use our best efforts to work with Third Party suppliers to make reasonable accommodation for you. Failure to make such disclosure will constitute a breach of these booking conditions and may result in you being excluded from the tour, in which case all moneys paid will be forfeited.

Third Party suppliers
Libertas Travel makes bookings with airlines, accommodation providers, coach companies, tour and local guides, and other suppliers to provide some or all components of the tour.  Third Party suppliers may also engage the services of local operators and sub-contractors.  Although Libertas Travel takes all reasonable care in selecting Third Party suppliers, it does not supervise their activities and therefore cannot be responsible for their acts or omissions.   Any services provided by Third Party suppliers are subject to the terms and conditions they impose including their respective cancellation policies.  

Privacy and personal information protection
To process tour bookings, Libertas Travel must collect personal (and possibly sensitive) information about travellers so that it can provide essential identifying information to Third Party suppliers.  Libertas Travel may share the following information with suppliers:  name, address, birth date, gender, dietary or medical requirements, and any other information required by law.  

Libertas Travel will not use this personal information for any other purpose unless otherwise notified to the traveller or where expressly permitted by the traveller. 

The limit of our liability
We accept responsibility for all ingredients of your tour, except those to which the principle of force majeure prevails, as set out herein. Our obligations and responsibilities are limited to those to which international conventions apply in respect of air, sea or rail carriers, including the Warsaw Convention and its various updates.

Applicable law
The laws of New South Wales, Australia govern these Booking Terms and Conditions.  Nothing in these Booking Conditions affects your rights as a consumer to rely on any applicable local laws.