TRIPS TO ITALY FROM CANADIAN TOUR OPERATORS
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Student tours, escorted vacation packages, culinary vacations, cruise holidays, tailored independent travel, Mediterranean cruises, hotels in Italy and guided trips to Venice, Rome, Florence, Siena and other Italian cities are all available from tour operators belonging to the Canadian Travel Council Promoting Italy (CTCPI).
CTCPI is a non-profit organization comprised of Globus, ALBATours, Arts & Leisure Tours / Travel With Flair, Insight Vacations, Kompas Express and Contiki Holidays. Their goal is to promote Italy and offer travel packages to Italy that meet ethical travel industry standards.
Student tours
Contiki offers three Italy trips, along with more than 60 trips that combine Italy with other European countries, for students and travelers who are 18 to 35 years old.
Contiki's popular Simply Italy package, for example, visits Rome, Pompeii, Sorrento, Capri, Florence, Pisa, Cinque Terre, Riomaggiore, Monterosso, La Spezia, Milan, Verona, Venice, Bologna and Vatican City. It includes accommodations, hotel gratuities and local taxes, several breakfasts and dinners, many tours, coach transportation and a tour guide.
Globus Vacations
Italy travel packages from Globus include Monograms Independent Travel to Rome, Venice, Florence and Sorrento. These trips feature first class Eurostar Train service, with transfers.
Escorted vacations to Italy range from the 9-day Italy's Great Cities to the 16-day Best of Italy and Sicily.
Globus also offers several winter trips to Italy, as well as religious vacation packages. The Grand Catholic Italy tour, for example, features several basilicas, the Vatican museums, Benedictine monasteries, Assisi and the shrine of Monte Sant'Angelo.
Guided Holidays
Arts and Leisure Tours / Travel With Flair offers Italy travel packages, by coach, with guaranteed departures to Sicily, Southern Italy and Italian cities. One exclusive small group tour to Tuscany features three cooking classes at La Petraia, often called “a restaurant with rooms.”
Travelers wanting to arrange their own trips, can book a la carte hotels in Rome, Venice, Florence, Tuscany, Umbria, the Lake District, Milan, Liguria, Naples, the Amalfi Coast and Sicily. The company also offers Italy car rentals with all-inclusive rates. The Arts and Leisure Tours / Travel With Flair brochure features a selection of accommodations in country homes and castles in Italy.
Insight Vacations
With more than 20 escorted premium tours to Italy, Insight Vacations tours range from an 11-day Best of Italy trip to a 13-day Italian Splendours vacation. Highlights of the latter tour's many guided excursions include Ravenna, known for its mosaics, a private boat cruise through Venice canals and a cruise to the island of Capri, with a funicular ride to Capri town.
Italy tours include quality hotels and restaurants, several guided excursions and guaranteed departures. On some tours, a Dine Around program allows participants to choose from a selection of restaurants for dining.
Luxury vacations
KOMPAS Express offers tailor-made unique trips to Italy, for individuals and groups, as well as event planning and pre- and post-conference travel. The company books flights to Italy with Austrian Airlines, via Vienna.
Out-of-the-box itineraries from KOMPAS Express can focus on spas and wellness, culture, culinary and wine tourism, nature, active holidays and language immersion.
Discount flights to Italy
ALBATours has bargain airfares to Italy on Skyservice, departing from Toronto to Rome, Venice, Pescara and Lamezia. Premier class, for an additional $399 each way, offers cheap business class flights to Italy.
Escorted coach tours include a nine-day culinary and wine tasting tour to Tuscany. ALBATours also offers a nine-day Italy Seaside Resort tour, which includes airfare. Visitors can obtain preferred rates for hotels in Rome, Venice, Tuscany, the Amalfi Coast and other Italian cities.
Italy cruises
Sunquest offers Mediterranean cruises on the new MSC Poesia to Greece, Turkey and Croatia, as well as Italy. MSC Musica cruises from Venice to Greece and Croatia. MSC Sinfonia cruises from Rome, Italy, to Monaco, Spain, Malta and Tunisia.
Canadian Travel Council Promoting Italy: www.ctcpi.ca
Italian Government Tourist Board: www.italiantourism.com
More things to see and do in Italy:
White Truffles - Buried Gourmet Treasure in Piedmont Italy
Tuscany Spas - Pisa, Siena, Pistoia, Lucca and Tuscan Coast
Italy (Lonely Planet)
Tuscany and Umbria (Lonely Planet)
Rome City Guide (Lonely Planet)
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