Hundreds of Australian students were facing the collective loss of more than $2 million they paid in advance for overseas school trips after a travel company went into liquidation.The company was used to organise end-of-year school trips to the United StatesA firm has been appointed liquidator for Educational World Travel , being used to organise end-of-year student tours to the United States for 2021.
Mr Steele said his daughter, Charlotte, had contributed to the deposit by working at a butcher's shop each week to help pay for the trip. "I feel sorry for the parents that have worked hard to come up with the money, but … I don't believe there'll be any money coming back." Ms Cox said she had paid the money in instalments and had tried to stop making the payments to EWT when the COVID-19 crisis began.
Wow...that must be some school trip.....