Fuoritinerario – Discover Your Italy is a relatively small and young Tour Operator. The milestone of our company and our daily work is our passion: our passion for travel and our passion for our Country, Italy.
We consider ourselves lucky for being born, living and working in such a beautiful place, rich in culture and tradition. Therefore, we strongly believe that the way we operate our business should have a positive impact on “what we touch”: environment, local communities, art and cultural heritage of our Country, our suppliers, our travellers.
Economic responsibility
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
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
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 than bottled water, that allows us to reduce of 95% the use of plastic bottles
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).
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 local guides agree with our responsible tourism principles and will help the travelers to respect the environment while enjoying their visits (encourage travelers not to litter, by indicating the proper way to recycle waste, even in public areas; encourage travelers to respect the places they visit: art pieces, architecture, environment).
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
Our original Itineraries will take travelers to discover unique destinations off the beaten track overlooked by the large scale and mass tourism. Furthermore, even when we visit most touristic places we carefully try to avoid tourists overcrowded spots thanks to the ability of our local guides that can suggest secondary streets or less crowded timing to visit and thus better enjoy a “must see” spot.
Most of the guided visits in the places included in our Tours are “walking guided tours”: we think that is the best way to appreciate the architecture and the atmosphere of most of our cities centers and villages; furthermore, many of the historic Italian cities do not permit motorized vehicles in their centers and we strongly support these local government initiatives.
We plan our Tour calendar to coincide with local events and celebrations. Special events open windows into the local culture, and the money spent on food and crafts stays in the community.
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.
We encourage travellers with us to immerse themselves in Italian culture and language beofre they depart for Italy, allowing them to connect and experience with the local culture, language, and way of life in Italy.
