Trips to New York for Travel & Tourism Students

For over 200 years Madame Tussauds’ legacy continues to entertain and educate millions of people with its signature wax figures. Let your students get an inside view on their Marketing & Public Relations or Customer Services strategies.

Go behind the scenes of the world’s most famous arena. Get an insider's look and explore exclusive VIP areas at the state-of-the-art arena, discover 'Chase Bridges' and commemorate over 130 years of legendary Garden history. Educational tours are also available and includes a meet and greet with a member of the corporate or production team. The speak will talk to your group about their background and hold a Q&A session.

On this 2 hour bus tour, your guide will entertain and inform as you visit over 40 sites from over 60 TV show and movie locations, as well as actual celebrity homes! Other movie tour options are available such as ‘Central Park Movie Site Tours’ and ‘New York TV and Movie Sites on the Water’.

This classic tour of the famous Yankee Stadium includes visits to New York Yankees Museum presented by Bank of America, Monument Park, MasterCard, Batters Eye Café and Press Box. Why not extend your visit by staying for lunch or, during the season, catching a game too!

Experience the best and most complete daytime view of New York City! Bring your sketchbook with you and you’ll be spoilt for choice over what to sketch. The unparalleled views of New York’s landmarks include Central Park, the Chrysler Building, Times Square, the Brooklyn Bridge and the Statue of Liberty – simply the most spectacular view in the city!

Opened in 2014, the museum explores the implications of the events of 9/11, documenting the impact of those events and exploring 9/11’s continuing significance. It demonstrates the consequences of terrorism on individual lives and its impact on communities at local, national and international level. The museum is growing a permanent collection of artefacts, stories, photos, video and other materials.

Venture over a quarter of a mile skyward and observe as your group takes in the scale of the immense urban landscape which opens up before them. This is a great way for your students to gain artistic inspiration away from the hustle and bustle of the streets below. A particularly popular evening visit.

Make sure you see all the sights by taking a 4-hour guided tour around the city. A popular and informative way to see all the best and key city sights of your choice. 

For English, drama and performing arts groups, why not opt for a literary themed tour?

Visit the site of the city’s first slave market and learn about the origins of slavery in colonial New York. Discover the secret escapes of the Underground Railroad and view a former stop along this famous route. Visit the African Burial Ground Memorial, a powerful tribute to the nation’s earliest known African and African American cemetery.

Learn the exciting history of how a band of brave men and women formed the networks that became the Underground Railroad. Visit an archaeological site and memorial dedicated to the memory of enslaved Africans in colonial America. View a former station of the Underground Railroad. Learn about the riots, revolts and dramatic escapes that occurred during the era of American slavery. Listen to tales of courage and triumph and discover the stories of real New Yorkers who risked their lives and properties to help people escape slavery.

See a spectacular Broadway performance - entertainment at its greatest! Choose from shows such as Wicked, Chicago and The Lion King.

Take in a spectacular view of Manhattan from the water, and pick out the many famous landmarks which dominate its skyline.

Enter the world of American television on this historic tour through the halls and working studios of NBC’s New York operations! Visit some famous studios, including Saturday Night Live, plus take a detailed look at a control room, then see the make-up room and prosthetics department.

RiseNY pairs museum-style galleries with an amusement park-quality ride.

Begin your adventure with an immersive film by an award-winning documentarian that transitions to an interactive self-guided walkthrough tracing tipping points in history that helped shape Music, Fashion, TV, Theater and more in each dedicated gallery:

• Discover the rise of Wall Street and The New York Stock Exchange in the Finance Gallery.
• Learn the history of mass media with Telsa’s Coil in the TV/Radio Gallery.
• Understand the law of physics through the Otis elevator brake in the Skyline Gallery.
• Visual, language and performing arts come to life in the Fashion, Music, Broadway and Film Galleries.

Then, board an extraordinary elevator experience that transports you to a spectacular virtual soaring ride! Feel the rush of wind in your hair as you “fly” over the world’s most stunning skyline.

Explore three levels of mind-bending multi-sensory immersive experiences. With magnificent views over the Manhattan skyline, Summit takes the concept of an “observation deck” to entirely new heights.

Edge is the highest outdoor sky deck in the Western Hemisphere, a marvel of architecture, engineering, and technology with panoramic views of New York City. Edge combines the pulse-quickening excitement of leaning out over a 100-story outdoor balcony with the warm welcome of elevated food & beverage service in a unique social space.