A Shared Commitment
With 30+ years of experience in student travel and international education, our leadership team brings the passion, expertise, and global connections needed to create unique, life-enriching programs for teen travelers.
Local Pride and Expertise
Our Program Directors will be with you 24/7 and share their passion, expertise and culture, all while taking care of all the logistics, so that our Teacher-Leaders can focus their attention and time on their students.
Michal - France
Michal is a natural born traveler. He made his first solo trip at the age of 18 traveling from Warsaw to Sicily and back. This experience changed his life forever; it was then that he decided to spend his life abroad. Originally from Poland he is living in Paris on the crossroad of 5 different cultures: Spanish, French, Polish, English and American.
He has more than 10 years of experience guiding travelers from different countries and more than 20 years of experience working with students in different international educational institutions.
Raffaella - Italy
For over 20 years, Raffaella has been leading travel programs for student groups, choirs, orchestras and even professional rock bands. Originally from Cesena in Northeast Italy, Raffaella now frequently travels between Italy and her adopted home in London.
Following her degree in English language and literature from the University of Bologna and a masters in marketing management for the travel and tourism business, she began her career in tour managing and operations. This has given her the opportunity to travel extensively across Europe and the United States while working with a large variety of clients and educational travel groups.
Jasmina - Slovenia
Jasmina, a Travel Director from Slovenia, was destined to be a traveler. Her father was a tour guide and she grew up listening to the stories of his travel adventures. She also frequently visited her family in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Jasmina started working as a guide in 1996, while still a student, focusing on history and journalism. Both her career as a journalist and as a travel director have given her opportunities to travel the world extensively but Slovenia, the Balkans, Central and Eastern Europe are still the destinations she holds most dear. She currently lives in Ljubljana, Slovenia
Richard - U.K.
Richard has two decades of experience in tourism and quite frequently works with institutional travel organizations, such as museums and church organizations, and students from the UK, Ireland, the United States and Canada. As a result, he spends much of his time traveling all over Europe. He brings this cosmopolitan and pan-European experience to bear on his work with HTP, constantly making connections to other cities and countries in the course of his travel programs.
Originally from England, Richard Bowen has lived in Rome for over 20 years. He holds a bachelor's degree in humanities from Middlesex University, and a master's degree in medieval and twentieth-century history from University College London.