About Us
Why always us?
“You miss 100% of the opportunities you don’t take”
Our ethos
At our core, we have a passion for sport, travel and culture, with key principles that ensure your team have a safe, enjoyable and successful tour.
Safety
The health, safety and wellbeing of our touring teams is paramount. Along with enjoying a successful tour, our key priority and principle responsibility is to provide you with a safe environment for your tour.
We are committed to ensuring that we and our contracted partners adhere to the guidelines as set out in ‘The Package Travel and Linked Travel Arrangements Regulations 2018′ or by their respective countries’ regulations. We receive up to the minute reports directly from the UK government regarding the latest travel news and advice on destinations worldwide.
Integrity
As an independent sports management company, we are free to provide unbiased information on all our destinations and venues we use. Our aim is to always offer you the very best for you and your team. Working closely with you from the outset we will keep you up to date with information throughout your entire tour. From your initial booking through to the culmination of your tour… we are with you all the way.
Quality
We believe in delivering exceptional customer care, with our people and partners going the extra mile to provide an experience that will exceed expectations.In our discussions with you prior to your tour we will work with you to ensure that the accommodation, travel and your sports fixtures are all personally arranged.Working with leading Hotels, travel providers and sports association we ensure the very best, without compromise.
Flexibility
At Touring Sport we adopt a flexible approach to your tour. We look to include as much or as little as you would like, thus giving you the choice and flexibility for a tour that is bespoke to your team, with unique experiences, and not one that is packaged from a brochure.
Culture
When visiting a region, we endeavour to workwith local businesses and expertise in that particular area to ensure that you experience an authentic tour. Thus, providing a real sense of a diverse tour experience, along with adding that personal touch to you visit.
Personal Service
We keep at heart the reason we started as a company, to provide a personalised tour for your team, incorporating excellent customer care, attention to detail and to ensure that you and your team enjoy a unique experience of a lifetime.
Jem Hancock
Managing Director
At its heart Touring Sport Managing Director, Jem Hancock has vast experience in sport at a professional, amateur and local level. Having played football at a professional and non-league level he went on to manage and sat on the committee of a local youth football team from under 5’s through to under 18’s.
Over the years sport has always been a key influence in his life. From his early days watching the Ali, Fraser and Norton flights through to the 2012 London Olympics and more recently the Cricket WC, Women’s Hockey WC, Wimbledon and Ryder Cups, sport has provided many memories and fantastic sporting moments throughout the years.
Jem has always been an “enthusiastic” golfer, and has recently successfully added golf tours to the portfolio. Being invited to play in the 2009 Spanish Pro Am to play with the reigning champion Peter Laurie, has to date been the been the highlight of his golfing experience.
With an appetite for travel, Jem had the opportunity to combine both of his passions, sport and travel. “The opportunity to take teams away on a tour not only provides them with the prospect of competing against international opposition, but enhances all of the excellent life skills needed, teamwork, sportsmanship and an appreciation of the culture of the country they are visiting” memories that will last a lifetime.
Key highlights on tour have been:
- Coaching Rugby and Cricket with young leaders from the UK at a Primary School in a Cape Town’s Khayelitsha Township.
- Going behind the Scenes with young Sports Coaches at F1 Catalunya, Espanyol, Barcelona Hockey and Futsal.
- Bringing teams to visit the UK to experience playing and watching fixtures across a multitude of sports.
Our chosen Charities
Daisy’s Dream
Established in 1996, Daisy’s Dream is a professional support service which responds to the needs of Children and families affected by life threatening illness or bereavement, working across Berkshire and the surrounding areas…
Romania Link
With Charity status awarded in 2019, Romania Link works to support a Children’s Orphanage and Social Project in Cluj, Romania. They provide funds, clothing and toys to families living in abject poverty.
Don’t just take our word for it.
Trip of a life-time
‘Thank you so much for the amazing tour you have taken us on this past week. We are so grateful for your help and you truly made this experience unforgettable for our team. I cannot believe how far above and beyond you went to give us the trip of a life-time.’
US Hockey team
Touring Sport were simply superb.
‘I can not express our sincere gratitude to Jem for what he did for us. Considering it was a very late booking he went out of his way to make the trip superb. I shall make a determined effort to let everyone that I come in to contact with know what a superb company you are and what fantastic service we received. I can speak for our entire group when I say that Touring Sport were simply superb.’
UK Football Team
Unbelievable experience
‘From the moment we touched down and contact between myself and Touring Sports representative was made, the whole trip was an unbelievable experience. The accommodation was ideal, the food was good, the trip, the people we met and of course the football was tremendous, set within spectacular surroundings.’
Irish football team
Great reassurance
‘It was the attention to detail that ensured our trip to South Africa was such a success, the planning for the trip gave us a great balance of challenges, experience and fun. The tours reps were available at all hours; a great reassurance for any party leader. At the end of the tour I was in contact directly to start planning our next trip, can there be a better advert for Touring Sport’
UK School Rugby Team
One great success
‘I would let you know that our group was very excited about the trip to England, we had a fantastic time and it was indeed like you said a very good accommodation for our group. There was enough facility for our big group of 87 people. Further I want to let you know that whole of Helmond talks at this time about the trip to England. It was for us and so for you one great success. We are now thinking about arranging every year an international trip.’
Dutch football team
Terrific experience
‘Just a note to extend my genuine appreciation for all the work put in to this tour. It was a terrific experience for the team (as well as parents) and your involvement the entire time enabled me to focus on the coaching and management of the team. Your impact on the team can be summed up by what Trevor said to me last night ‘Jem is the man’.
US Soccer Team
