How is the cost of SAH study tours computed?
The Society uses a very precise calculation to determine the price of every study tour. First, all the individual and group expenses are researched by SAH staff and the study tour leader. Individual expenses include hotels, meals and admission fees; group expenses include bus rental, tour leader honorarium, administrative expenses, and other costs that the group will share. The group expenses are divided by the number of tour participants, which can be anywhere from 20 to 40, depending on the restrictions of the sites visited. Then the individual expenses are added to the prorated group expenses. Finally, a contribution to SAH, ranging from $100 for short domestic tours to $350 for long international tours, is added to the expenses. The cost of the tour will be the total of those three expenses-individual and group costs plus a contribution. Additional expenses for single supplements consist only of the difference in cost between a hotel room used by a single person and a hotel room sh
