Fuoritinerario, Discover Your Italy

How the minimum criteria of the responsible travel standard was met...

Economic responsibility

• We participate to local Chambers of Commerce Programs aimed to sustain the tradition and the work from small local artisans and in every Tour we include visits to local artisans workshops: this enables travellers to understand the tradition and buy true handmade crafts from local artisans; and enables artisans to show their talent and get a fair reward for their valuable work.
• We have chosen to employ local guides: our small group formula allows us to give every group the support of more than one local guides, depending on the complexity of the itinerary. The local guide will be really capable to make the traveler understand not only the art, but the true culture of each place visited, making a much more in depth experience
• We manage our operations throughout a nice office in Perugia we have rented from a cooperative society active in the social services field: this means the amount we pay for our rent is re-invested by the cooperative in social service activities

  Environmental responsibility

  • Our office building is solar powered: 100% of the energy we use for our office operations is produced by solar panels. We strive to have a paperless office. We are very careful not to waste any paper for our prints (and we always use both sides of each paper sheet); we try to minimize the use of paper brochures.
  • We recycle all our waste (paper, plastic, organic). We drink “filtered” tap water instead of bottled water, that allows us to reduce of 95% the use of plastic bottles.
  • We only use small hotels, that have a much lower impact on the environment. We prefer accommodations that formally adhere to the sustainable tourism principles or that can demonstrate efforts to reduce their environmental impact. We use as reference the guidelines indicated by “Legambiente Turismo”. Waste reduction, through less single portions versus more refillable containers and separate waste collection, water saving through saving appliances and indications to customers for rational use, certified-quality detergents and indication to customers for rational use, energy saving through energy saving lamps and appliances, healthy food (local fresh products; typical local food; organic food), noise abatement.
  • Our Tours are designed exclusively for very small groups. Small groups have a much “softer” impact on the environment: less pollution (they travel by small bus and public transportation rather than by a large coach; walking tours can be more easily organized); less waste (it is easier to give waste guidelines and control a small group of people).

    Social responsibility

    • Our Tours are designed exclusively for very small groups (from 6 to maximum 12 travelers). Small groups allow travelers to get in close contact with the places visited, easily interact with local people, while not overburdening them with visitors. This means greater opportunity for cross-cultural understanding
    • In every tour we include one or more “Slow Food” Restaurants (Slow Food is an Italian Association, founder of the international "Slow Food" movement, whose aim is to combat fast-food globalization by promoting local products, traditional cuisines and ways of life).
    • We have chosen to employ local guides: our small group formula allows us to give every group the support of more than one local guides, depending on the complexity of the itinerary. The local guide will be really capable to make the traveler understand not only the art, but the true culture of each place visited, making a much more in depth experience.