Planning any overseas touring? Check out our travel tips if your musicians have instruments made from protected species.

A new streamlined process for issuing musical instrument certificates for international travel has been accepted by 178 nations at a March 2013 meeting of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES).

Find links to resources, permit applications, and more at americanorchestras.org.

Heather Noonan, vice president of advocacy for the League of American Orchestras, discusses the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species and the effect of the new regulations on traveling musicians in the Summer 2013 issue of Symphony.

Posted August 21, 2013