Cancellation fees will apply.

You will need to officially apply for a deferral through the WBS International Relations Department.

Deferrals are taken into account with valid evidence such as a doctor’s certificate. However, work commitments are not grounds for a deferral.

The cancellation will likely delay your graduation, as trips take place only twice a year. 

As there are only 2 Global Study Tour Windows (March and November)

  And 3 graduations in a year. (March, July and December.)

If you defer your global study tour, it is unlikely that you will graduate with your original Cohort. 

Your Global Study Tour assignment will be delayed by 6 months,

 and you could end up in the situation where you still have a unit to complete to meet graduation requirements. 

No

Students are to be punctual for all visits, including pre-trip briefings and debriefings.

Failure to attend a visit or briefing without a valid reason will render your attendance as incomplete.

This has severe consequences relating to you passing the study tour and graduating. 

If there is insufficient interest to make a particular trip viable, it MAY be cancelled.

A minimum of 12 people (excluding academics) are needed to make a trip viable.

If a trip is not viable, we will try to accommodate those affected by the cancellation on other trips. Thus, it is imperative to apply for your trip of choice as soon as bookings open on the website. 

Unfortunately not. WBS secures these tours as packages from travel agents, so alternative flight and hotel bookings cannot be accommodated. 

No – the dates are fixed.

A travel itinerary is available for your perusal, on the booking page of each study tour.

No. The trip is limited to WBS students. No exceptions will be made. 

Yes. Free time is an important part of the experience, therefore we will ensure that there is some free time on all of the trips. 

Yes. You will be requested to complete a booking form on which you can inform us of your dietary requirements for the trip.

If you intend on selecting the sharing option, do try decide on who, before you book your tour. A list of students looking for a sharing partner will be made available once bookings have closed. WBS will have to assign you a sharing partner if you do not state who your sharing partner is on the booking form.

Yes, for all tours excluding Dubai as a travel option. 

No. All international tours require that you have a valid passport.

Your passport must be valid for 6 months after your time of travel.

The travel agent will inform you  how many blank pages you need in your passport for your tour of choice, but it is usually 4 – 6 pages.

If you do not have a passport, enough blank pages in your passport, or your passport has expired, it is your responsibility to arrange the necessary documentation with Home Affairs.

Do this as soon as possible to avoid disappointment. 

Your travel agent will contact you to assist you with information required for arranging your visa. 

You will be supplied a name tag with a QR code that is linked to a web page with all of the relevant contact and emergency numbers for your tour. 

Yes, you may arrange a break-away trip, as long as this does not impact the rest of the group. Break-aways are generally only permitted before or after the group trip and may not impact your academic tour.

You will be responsible for any additional costs related to any break-away trip, and you need to finalise your alternative travel arrangements by Wednesday 15 May 2019.

A break-away trip can be arranged via the travel agent, when they contact you regarding your group trip. 

There are numerous options available within the pricing structures.

We have endeavoured to accommodate students with a payment structure with acceptable deadlines. 

Your booking will be forfeited.

It is your responsibility to ensure that you have your affairs in order ahead of booking day.

To be fair on all students, no exceptions will be made. 

Please take note that other than what is stipulated on the website, cost breakdowns cannot be provided.

Tours are offered as packages by our partner institutions and travel agents. 

Visas (if required).,The travel agent will provide you with details.

Travel insurance (WBS has a low-cost option. However, many people prefer to arrange their own insurance.)

Inoculations

Shopping and other spending money

As with any travel booking, there is an element of risk involved until everything has been paid and all tickets have been issued. We watch these risk-factors closely. One way to reduce this risk is to ensure that payment deadlines are adhered to.

Please refer to the timeline that provides deadlines for the trip: https://wbsstudytours.co.za/timelines/ 

Note that estimates are not invoices and do not qualify as a booking for a study tour.

You can generate a pro forma invoice by booking a tour on the pro forma generator page.

A pro forma invoice will be emailed to you.

Ask your sponsors to transfer the funds to you fee account.

Pay for your tour using your fee account. 

If the tour you booked is more expensive than the tour that you are moved to, you will be refunded the difference in the price via your fee account.

If the tour you booked is less expensive than the tour that you are moved to, you will be supplied with an invoice for the difference in the price and given 1 month to settle the outstanding amount.

WBS go to every effort to avoid tours being cancelled. 

Yes. Our goal is to involve you as much as possible in tailoring the trip to meet your interests and preferences.

Once destinations and groups have been finalised, your academic lead will engage with you to discuss preferences, contacts, ideas, etc. 

Company visits depend on the tour leaders and the students, as well as the availability of our contacts, embassy support, etc., so it is impossible to say which companies you will be visiting at this stage, but you can get an idea of what kinds of companies have been visitedin previous tours.

Great – this is part of the process. We want to make the trips as relevant to you as possible, so let us know in due course if you can help set up any visits or if you have a particular organisation you’d love to visit.

We can’t promise that this will be arranged, but we will certainly try our best.

The earlier you advise us, the more likely it is that we can try to arrange a visit of your choice. 

No. The international programme counts as your foreign elective and forms a part of the MBA programme, so ensure that you secure a position on one of the tours. 

1. The reason why you are applying for that specific tour.
2. Your highest level of education.
3. Your career and any career achievements to this point.
4. Extra-curricular activities or achievements. 

On successful completion of your International Programme, you will be awarded an elective credit. All students are required to complete this and all of the tours include this credit.